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After abandoning a military career due to injury, Benatzky earned a doctorate in German philology and studied music with Mottl. He started writing tune lyrics and executed in Munich, ultimately working being a director for the cabaret in Vienna, where he also composed music and lyrics for Josma Selim, his …

Marlene Ver Planck paid tribute to the fantastic American songbook. Ver Planck, who was raised in Newark, NJ, hearing Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald on WNEW radio, collaborated throughout her lengthy profession with her hubby, arranger, composer, and conductor Billy Ver Planck. Her 2000 Compact disc, My Impetuous Heart (DRG), …

Schmidt’s all too short life and profession are among the tragedies from the music globe. He was therefore brief (under five foot) that he was basically shut from the operatic profession that his tone of voice was created and qualified for, and after fleeing the Nazis (he was of Jewish …

Dubbed “the most well-known supper-club performer who ever resided” by a minimum of Liberace, cabaret icon Hildegarde headlined nightclubs throughout the world for near seven decades, on the way igniting the now-common vogue for single-named celebrity. She was created Hildegarde Loretta Offer in Adell, WI, on Feb 1, 1906 — …

It appears odd to consider the task of Dagmar Krause seeing that specifically rock, due mainly to her superb skill performing non-rock popular music. For the reason that of her association with German intensifying rockers Slapp Content, and English avant-garde prog rockers Henry Cow as well as the Artwork Bears …

German singer/acting professional/activist Katja Ebstein was created in the city of Girlachsdorf in 1945. Known on her behalf specific Berliner dialect and like of musical theatre, she honed her skills in the past due ’60s among the burgeoning folk motion, and scored several strikes in the ’70s with supervisor, producer, …

Actor and vocalist Brian Stokes Mitchell offers performed in lots of tv and Broadway productions, including Guy of la Mancha and Kiss Me personally Kate, that he received a Tony prize. A indigenous of Seattle, Mitchell spent his formative years in NORTH PARK performing with several theater groupings. A proceed …

Adelaide Hall is one particular forgotten singers, prominent between your two Globe Wars but overlooked in the years that followed. That she was among the best black performers of her period makes her insufficient reputation or representation in the record catalog specifically frustrating, It’s a lot more amazing when one …

Vocalist/pianist Michael Feinstein was both a perfect motivator and a beneficiary of the renewed curiosity about pre-rock popular music that were only available in the 1980s, a craze that also present Linda Ronstadt offering an incredible number of copies of albums of traditional pop made out of conductor Nelson Riddle …

Mary Cleere Haran emerged in the 1980s’ revival appealing in traditional pop and cabaret singing. The next of eight kids within an Irish Catholic family members, she was the child of a teacher of theatre and film at SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA City University and was raised immersed in the …