b. Lewis Ernest W Mills, 22 Feb 1908, North Elmham, Norfolk, Britain, d. 23 Apr 2005, Denham, Buckinghamshire, Britain. After operating briefly like a clerk Mills qualified like a dancer, producing his London stage debut in the chorus from the Five O’Time clock Revue (1929). Noticed by Noël Coward, he …

b. 21 Feb 1879, Bradford, Yorkshire, Britain, d. 24 Apr 1952, Chiddingford, Surrey, Britain. Although she’d retire from your stage before she was 30, Millar crammed into her profession many great successes and she actually is kept in mind as the archetypal Western End ingénue of the first twentieth hundred …

b. Gilbert Michael McKendrick, c.1903, Paris, Tennessee, USA, d. 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA. McKendrick was created into a extremely musical family members; his dad and four brothers had been all music artists. In the 20s he performed electric guitar and banjo and in addition occasionally sang with several rings including …

b. 15 Oct 1903, near Syracuse, NY, USA, d. 31 August 1989, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Luce was created up to speed a teach that was transferring through Syracuse at that time. She first made an appearance on Broadway in Small Jessie Wayne (1923) and is at Dear Sir and …

b. Augustus Kwamlah Nii-lante Quaye, 3 Sept 1921, London, Britain, d. 13 March 2000, Amsterdam, holland. The son of the British music hall musician and Ga (Ghanaian) pianist Caleb Jonas Kwamlah Quaye (who, as ‘Mope Desmond’, used Sidney Bechet in London in 1921), Kaye started his singing profession with Billy …

b. 25 Apr 1913, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Early in his profession Johnson performed clarinet with Zack Whyte’s territory music group and with Benny Carter. In the middle-30s, he travelled to European countries in a music group associated trumpeter-entertainer Freddy Taylor even though in France used Willie Lewis and in …

b. Helene Anna Held, 18 March 1872, Warsaw, Poland, d. 12 August 1918, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Powered from Poland by anti-Semitic pogroms, the Helds had taken refuge in Paris in 1881 and pursuing her dad’s loss of life she and her mom transferred to London in 1884. She do …

Bass Cesare Siepi was, seeing that mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato seen in Lanfranco Rasponi’s reserve THE FINAL Prima Donnas, “the ruler from the bassos, a grand seigneur for the stage.” For 23 periods, he was the Metropolitan Opera’s leading basso cantante, as adept in the style of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and …

American composer Victor Teen gave up an effective career being a concert violinist for well-known music, learning to be a main musical figure in the 1930s through the middle-’50s, writing many well-known music and scores for more than 300 Hollywood films. Teen was created on August 8, 1901, in Chicago …

Dan Zimmerman can be an indie folk singer/songwriter associated with Daniel Smith from the music group Danielson as well as the label Noises Familyre. Given birth to in 1948, Zimmerman may be the son of the Methodist preacher and was deeply affected by his amount of time in the chapel. …