MONICA LEWIS: (Singing) I'm Chiquita Banana, and I've come to say bananas have to ripen in a certain way. BLOCK: For 14 years, starting in the mid-1940s, Monica Lewis sang about bananas. She died on ...

I was a big fan of Monica Lewis and was moved when I learned of her passing, but I didn't know she was the voice of Chiquita bananas ["Jazz singer was known as the voice of Chiquita bananas," ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress, singer and voice of the Chiquita Banana cartoon character Monica Lewis has died. Her former manager, Alan Eichler, says Lewis died Friday of natural causes at her home in ...