Lulu Roman
| Lulu Roman | |
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 Lulu performing in 2008 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Bertha Louise Hable |
| Born | May 6, 1946 Dallas, Texas United States |
| Genres | Christian |
| Occupations | Christian Recording Artist |
| Years active | 1969-Present |
| Labels | Son Of Jessie/Daywind |
| Associated acts | Hee Haw / Roy Clark |
| Website | http://www.luluroman.net/ |
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Lulu Roman (born Bertha Louise Hable on May 6, 1946, in Dallas, Texas) is a former telephone operator and go-go dancer turned comedian and singer. She is probably best known as a regular on the comedy-music television series Hee Haw.
Roman was born with a thyroid dysfunction in a home for unwed mothers and quickly placed in an orphanage. It was there that her weight problem furthered her pain, preventing her adoption and making her the center of teasing by the other children. She felt that it was during this time that she learned to use her sense of humor as a defense. She attended W.W. Samuell High School in Dallas, graduating in 1964.[1]
During her stint on Hee Haw, she went through a bout of drug addiction which led to two arrests and caused her to be booted from the show in 1971. About this time, the unmarried Roman discovered that she was pregnant.
During this time, Roman's search for happiness and acceptance, which had almost led her to her personal destruction, instead, led to her Christian conversion. Following her second incarceration, she reconnected with a friend from the orphanage who invited her to the Beverly Hills Baptist Church in Oak Cliff, Texas, where she found help from the church's pastor.[1] Positive changes in her life eventually resulted in a full pardon from the Governor of Texas and reinstatement on Hee Haw, where she would stay until the show ended production in the mid 1990s.
She also has a career as a singer of Southern Gospel music, and has recorded several albums, although she never trained as a singer.[1] In 1999 Lulu Roman was inducted into the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame with fellow artists Andy Griffith, Barbara Mandrell, David L. Cook, Gary S. Paxton, Loretta Lynn, Jimmy Snow and Jody Miller.[2]
Thanks to lap band surgery Roman lost over 200 pounds since her Hee Haw days. She continues to perform music and stand-up comedy and also enjoys working with Compassion International, a child-developement organization.[3] Her latest project "Seven Times" hit the number two spot on Cash Box in 2010. In April 2010, she signed with BGA Entertainment. A new album of musical standards titled At Last is expected to be released in Spring 2012.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Marilyn Johnson Chase. "It's no joke: `Hee Haw' star stays busy," The Dallas Morning News, December 9, 1990, page 1R.
- ^ Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame Roman is inducted into the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame
- ^ "Ask American Profile". Published in American Profile newsmagazine. February 5, 2012.
- ^ American Profile
