Mimi Roman was a 1950s country music and rockabilly musician who sang at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and was a Decca Records artist in the 1950s. She shared the stage with Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline, and for a while, her career paralleled Wanda Jackson's. Little Lovin', Cheater's Luck, The Wind Up, I'm Ready if You're Willing, Have a Heart, Honky-Tonk Girl, and many more are among Mimi Roman's Rockabilly and Country hits.
Some sources said that Miriam Lapolito was born in Salinas, California. When she was fourteen years old, her family moved to New York. Other sources say that se was born in New York and raised in the Bronx. She began recording for Decca Records when she was barely twenty years old, and her first release was a Hank Williams song. Her singing abilities and profession led her to Cincinnati, Ohio's WLW radio station, where she joined the cast of the Midwestern Hayride. One of the highlights of her career was a nearly eighteen-month tour with the Phillip Morris Country Music Show, which took her to over 400 cities across the United States. Carl Smith, Goldie Hill, Red Sovine, Ronnie Self, and, for a while, Little Jimmie Dickens starred in the show. The show drew viewers from 45 different states.
Mimi's name never cracked the Billboard country chart, despite the fact that she recorded for a big country label and worked nonstop until she retired from the road when she was still in her twenties.
