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Libby Holman

b. Elsbeth Holzman, 23 Might 1904, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, d. 18 June 1971, Stamford, Connecticut, USA. Holman was viewed by some because the initial great white torch vocalist, and by others as ‘a dark crimson menace’, due to her tempestuous personal life. She performed minor assignments in Broadway musicals such …

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Syd Nathan

Among the truly eccentric statistics from the record sector, Syd Nathan was the creator and mind from the Cincinnati-based Ruler Information. Nathan, who founded the label as an expansion to his record shop, acquired an uncanny capability to feeling the types of music that African-Americans migrating in the South wished …

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