Liza Minnelli was born to Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli in 1946, according to Smooth Radio. As the daughter of two celebrities, she was instantly famous herself. “I was born and they took a picture,” she told Variety. Her mother took her onstage for the first time when she was 3. However, she still saw her parents as regular people. “My parents were my parents. I didn’t know that I had to dodge questions about Mama until people started asking me questions,” she told Variety.
Her concert with her mother at the London Palladium in 1964 was her biggest public appearance up to that point, she said in the liner notes to the concert recording (via Playbill). She said her mother tricked her into performing. “She asked me to come perform in London with her but I declined. I felt I wasn’t ready, I was too young. But Mama didn’t take no for an answer. She went ahead and announced the concert to the press,” Minnelli recalled.
Garland was very supportive of her daughter’s career, and adamant that she be recognized for her own talent and not her parentage. “She was wonderful and so overprotective,” Minnelli told Variety. “She tried saving us from any of the stuff that other people said, except the great stuff.”
