- Yolanda Casazza was age 15 when she met Frank Veloz in a New York dance club. They were both teenagers and quickly fell in love. Yolanda did not consider herself a dancer, she wanted to be a baseball player.
- She and her husband, Frank Veloz, composed the ballroom dance team of Veloz & Yolanda.
- Yolanda and her husband Frank Veloz had four children - Nick, Tony, Yolanda Jr. and Guy. Nick and Tony passed away in their twenties.
- Ex-mother-in-law of Bernie Kopell.
- Met her future husband at a high school dance contest in New York around 1921.
- Despite her reputation for glamorous attire, she was a tomboy in private life, always wearing plain clothes while off stage.
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