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This vocal group officially formed in 1939 following the breakup of Herivelto Martins and Nilo Chagas’ Preto e Branco duo. Adding Dalva de Oliveira finished Trio de Ouro, which got its peak within the next 10 years with two immortal classics, “Ave Maria no Morro” (Martins) and “Praça Onze” (Martins/Grande …

Nolan Opportunity was a fixture around the music picture in Chicago for a long time; a vocalist of considerable skill who, by virtue of poor timing and business circumstances beyond his control, by no means quite got the proper break at the proper time to accomplish a number of the …

Cajun singer and songwriter Helen Boudreaux is a survivor. Although she experienced three failed relationships and was severly abused during two of these, Boudreaux is constantly on the discover solace in her music. “I maintain jumping up, ” she stated by phone. “I’ve eight kids and twenty-three grandchildren. I am …

Edward C. Garza can be among San Antonio’s most-honored composers and among its many prolific. Throughout a three-year composer-in-residency, he had written 17 functions, including a mass, a ballet rating, and several essential compositions for the San Antonio Symphony. He continues to be the recipient of several awards, like the …

By 1936, Extra fat Waller was fast becoming among the Victor label’s most profitable jazz performers, and his incredible popularity engendered several Extra fat Waller imitators. Vocalion designated that function to Putney Dandridge, and Decca prompted Bob Howard to change his own work in order to resemble Waller’s, as the …

His surname about as prevalent in Latin music as tasty fixings on the bocadilla, Idelfonso Acosta’s international position being a guitarist and composer has probably been compromised by his decision to stay in Cuba. No-one is acquiring him for granted there, nevertheless, at least by his position as president from …

John Foulds is among the quintessential eccentrics who abound in the annals of music in early twentieth hundred years Britain, a prolific author of so-called “light” music, which the majority of his popularity today regrettably rests. The boy of the bassoonist in the Hallé Orchestra, he started piano lessons at …

Oz Bach was one of the most ebullient and outgoing abilities in 1960s folk and pop music. Aside from creating a name that was difficult to ignore, he was also one particular ubiquitous statistics that just held arriving either at or near plenty of actually nice musical phenomena. Bach researched …

Putting Carnatic vocalists in alphabetical purchase leads to a quirk of fate. Jon Higgins (1939-1984) was a unique character. Unlike many Westerners who dabble in the music of additional ethnicities, he immersed himself in Carnatic music towards the level that he could win a popularity being a Carnatic vocalist. His …

Probably the best all-female jazz group, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm was formed in 1939 in the Piney Woods Country Life School in Mississippi. The 17-piece golf swing group, that was led by vocalist Anna Mae Winburn, included such good soloists as tenor saxophonist Viola Burnside and trumpeter Tiny Davis. …