Million-Seller Recording Artist, BMI Million Airs Songwriter and Number One Hit Arranger, Gretchen Diane Christopher was born to musical parents Helen and Ian Christopher, February 29, 1940, in Olympia, WA. There, she met her first love at age 16, wrote the music and lyrics to her first song, "Come Softly", arranged it in counterpoint to the "dum-dum" scat background of one of her classmates and the harmony of another, and the three (Two Girls 'n' a Guy) performed it before 1500 students, for their Senior Class Talent Assembly at Olympia High School (OH…
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