Skeeter Davis was an American country music singer who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World." She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star.

Where is Skeeter Davis now?

Death. In 2001, Davis became incapacitated by her breast cancer, which had metastasized. The following year, she made her final performance at the Grand Ole Opry, performing "The End of the World." She died of breast cancer in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospice on September 19, 2004, aged 72.

How did Skeeter Davis get the name Skeeter?

Born Mary Penick, the eldest of six children, she had an impoverished childhood on a farm near Dry Ridge, in the Appalachian foothills. She acquired the nickname "Skeeter" because of her infant hyperactivity. At Dixie Heights high school, she formed a bluegrass duo, the Davis Sisters, with her cousin Betty.