Peggy Lee In Hospital After Stroke

Peggy Lee, the smoky-voiced singer-composer famous for such songs as Is That All There Is? and Fever, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.

Nicki Lee Foster said her 78-year-old mother had the stroke Oct. 27.

"She's conscious, and her family has been with her," she said Monday, refusing to say where her mother was hospitalized.

Foster said doctors were trying to determine whether the stroke caused permanent damage.

Lee is best known for the hit song Fever, remade by many artists, including Madonna. She won a Grammy in 1969 for the song Is That All There Is?

A diabetic, Lee has been troubled by a number of health problems. In 1961, she contracted double pneumonia. In 1976, she had a near-fatal fall in a New York hotel and was seriously injured in a fall in Las Vegas in 1987.

In early 1985, she underwent four angioplasties (balloon surgery to open clogged arteries). While appearing in New Orleans in October 1985, she underwent double-bypass heart surgery.