At age 17, Rinker moved to Seattle and worked as a sheet music demonstrator at Woolworth's. She married and divorced Ted Bailey, keeping his last name because she thought it sounded more ``American'' than Rinker, which was of Swiss (German) origin. With the help of _her_ second husband Benny Stafford, Bailey became an established blues and jazz singer on the west coast of the United States. <sep>, Pronoun: her