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Moved to Germany with her husband in 1969 where she began a successful, multilingual recording/performing career.

Her stage name is a combination of the fact that she's only 4'10" tall ("Little"), her nickname ("Peggy") and the month she was born in ("March").

Her signature tune, "I Will Follow Him", is actually a cover song. It was composed by French conductors Franck Pourcel and Paul Mauriat, and first recorded as an instrumental by Pourcel under the title "Chariot", in 1961. The first vocal version was by Petula Clark, done in French. It was then translated into English and recorded by Miss March, and became a number one hit. In 1976, Pourcel's co-writer, Paul Mauriat, recorded a disco instrumental of the song, under the original "Chariot" title.

Best known for her hit song "I Will Follow Him", which topped the American pop charts in April 1963; she was only 15 at the time, and was known as "Little Peggy March".

Has one child, a daughter Sande (born 1974)

Recording for RCA Victor, March made 18 singles from 1964 to 1971. She also cut several albums, none of which sold well in the United States.

Although she is sometimes remembered as a one-hit wonder, she continued to have success in Europe well into the 1970s.

March currently works largely in the Las Vegas music scene and has also performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri.

In 2004 she was the headliner in Riff Markowitz's Fabulous Palm Springs Follies at the Plaza Theater in Palm Springs, California.

Margaret Battavio, aka Little Peggy March, had dreamt of a singing career for most of her young life, and had been winning talent contests as a young girl. She was signed to RCA in 1962 at age 14, and made her debut that year with a cover of the song "Little Me," taken from a Sid Caesar Broadway hit, which vanished without a trace.

The cult film Hairspray featured "I Wish I Were a Princess" in 1988, and a retro fad in Germany brought her some continuing success starting in the mid-1990s with the album Die Freiheit Frau zu sein (1995).

March recorded another version of "When The Rain Begins To Fall", as a duet with the German singer Andreas Zaron.

She won the Deutscher Schlager Contest in 1965 and her song "Mit 17 hat man noch Träume" ("At 17 you still have dreams") placed No. 2 in the German Singles Chart. This was followed by German songs like "In der Carnaby Street", "Einmal verliebt - immer verliebt", "Hey", "Romeo und Julia" ("On Carnaby Street, Once in Love-Always in Love, Hey, Romeo and Juliet"... No. 1 in German Charts).

Born to an Italian American family, Peggy was discovered at age 13 singing at her cousin's wedding and was introduced to record producers Hugo & Luigi. They gave her the nickname Little Peggy March because she was only 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) tall, she was only 13, the record she did with them was "Little Me," and her birthday was in March.

Although she is remembered in the United States by some as a one-hit wonder, her singles "I Wish I Were a Princess" and "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love" made the Top 30 in the United States, with the latter also reaching #29 on the UK Singles Chart.

March's success also came with financial trouble. She was a minor and the Coogan Law prevented her parents from managing her money. The responsibility was placed on her manager, Russell Smith. It was discovered in 1966 that he had squandered the fortune, leaving her with $500.

In 1979, she experimented with disco on the album Electrifying, but it failed to achieve commercial success. By 1981 record companies did not renew her contracts, and she moved from Germany back to the United States.

Her commercial success in Germany continued through much of the 1970s and she tried her luck in representing Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969, only to be placed second in the national final with the song "Hey! Das ist Musik für mich". March made another Eurovision attempt in 1975, when she performed the Ralph Siegel composition "Alles geht vorüber" in the German national contest. Again she was placed second.

March became the first white female solo artist to hit #1 on the Billboard R&B chart.

On April 24, 1963, her single "I Will Follow Him" soared to number one on the U.S. charts. She recorded the song in early January 1963 and it was released on January 22, when she was only 14. March became the youngest female artist with a number one hit, at 15, in late April 1963, a record that still stands for the Billboard Hot 100. The recording also reached number one in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and Scandinavia, although it failed to chart in the UK.

In 1984, Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora achieved a major European hit single with the track "When the Rain Begins to Fall", co-written by March. Although not a hit in the UK or in the US, it went to #1 in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In 1998, the song entered the German Top 10 again when covered by rapper Pappa Bear.

Peggy graduated from Lansdale Catholic High School in 1966.

She began having a strong presence in the European and Asian music markets and moved to Germany in 1969.

Her song "I Will Follow Him" was featured in the 1992 movie Sister Act.

In March 2010, March went into the recording studio to record her first album of new, original material in English in over 30 years. A collaboration with Scandinavian songwriter and producer Soren Jensen, the album Always and Forever was released on October 13, 2010. It was followed by a special edition for the German-speaking countries in April 2012, including two duets with the Dutch singer José Hoebee, one of them being a cover version of "I Will Follow Him"; which had also been a #1 single in the Netherlands and Belgium for Hoebee in 1982 (March further recorded a subsequent recording in 2012 for a 2013 release to commemorate the song's 50th anniversary).

Occasionally heard on Sirius XM radio, specifically the oldies channel, "Golden 60's", talking with Phlash Phelps about music related subjects.