A singer/songwriter whose lush, theatrical pop harked back again to the customs of Tin Skillet Alley, cabaret, as well as opera, Rufus Wainwright was created in 1973; the boy of folk music luminaries Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, his parents divorced while he was a kid, and he grew …

Richard Rodgers was the most effective composer of well-known music for the theater in the 20th century. During the period of a 60-yr career, he published the song ratings for 42 musicals staged on Broadway or in the Western End, aswell as 11 film musicals and two tv musicals (not …

Charles King had not been a major saving superstar by any stretch out of the creativity, but being a song-and-dance guy on Broadway and in Hollywood, he introduced his talk about of well-known popular music. He had an extended profession on Broadway and, when the films learned to chat, it …

Dancer, acting professional, and vocalist Fred Astaire worked steadily in a variety of entertainment press during nine years from the 20th hundred years. One of the most celebrated dancer in the annals of film, with performances in 31 film musicals between 1933 and 1968 (and a particular Academy Award in …

Carlos Gardel was tango’s 1st superstar but still among its most enduring performers. Revered mainly because an icon in Argentina since his tragic loss of life in 1935, Gardel — nicknamed “Un Zorzal Criollo” (“The Creole Thrush”) — was the first vocalist to look at the tango mainly because a …

Songwriter Cy Coben penned a few of the most popular and enduring nation hits from the honky tonk period, including Hank Snow’s “Nobody’s Kid” and Eddy Arnold’s “I wish to Play Home with You.” Blessed in Jersey Town, NJ, in 1918, Coben examined trumpet as a kid and gigged with …

Among George Gershwin’s closest professional close friends, Irving Caesar composed several specifications — “Sometimes I’m Happy,” “Tea for just two,” “Swanee” (with Gershwin), and “Crazy Tempo” — throughout a extended life that found him live at night age group of 100. Delivered on Manhattan’s Decrease East Side for the 4th …

This eclectic band played music rooted in the Southern Appalachians and was founded by banjo player John Rector (b. c. 1900, USA, d. 28 August 1985, USA), who owns a general shop in Fries, Virginia. Rector documented in NY for OKeh Information with Henry Whitter and Adam Sutphin as Whitter’s …

b. Un Barrio (Spanish Harlem), Manhattan, NEW YORK, USA. Never to become confused using the veteran bass participant from the same name, music group innovator, saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist, pianist, vocalist, percussionist, arranger, composer, maker Rodríguez was an associate of his sibling Ray’s music group in the past due 60s and …

b. 16 July 1891, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA, d. 17 Apr 1974, NEW YORK, NY, USA. As a kid performer, even though still in junior college, Seeley made an appearance in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA theatres, carrying out speciality acts. Later on, she relocated to LA where she …