Tag Archives: 1913

Ciro Monteiro was among the best samba singers ever. As an novice vocalist, Monteiro was asked by Sílvio Caldas to displace Luís Barbosa in his duo in 1933. They performed in the Programa Casé. As Monteiro needed to break his duo along with his sibling, the novice Careno, he quickly …

Texas nation bluesman Alfred “Snuff” Johnson has played guitar because the 1920s, but didn’t perform “professionally” for another 60 years, and wasn’t documented until 1994. Johnson was created in Cedar Creek, TX to parents Frank and Pearl Lee Johnson, who have been sharecroppers. His dad often performed the fiddle along …

Most likely the greatest jazz harpist ever, Adele Girard showed that it had been possible to swing very difficult about that angelic instrument; just the little-known Casper Reardon experienced preceded her. Girard used Harry Sosnick’s music group and in 1937, she became a member of clarinetist Joe Marsala’s combo, marrying …

Raised in the artistic circles of Tunis in the very beginning of the 20th hundred years, this wonderful performer of Arabic classical music began monitoring along with his first instructor in 1925. It had been the musical wizard Abdelaziz Jemaïun, quite luckily also a pal of his father’s. The kid …