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b. 24 Feb 1930, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, d. 13 Might 2006, Manhattan, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Diener began on Broadway within an unsuccessful revue, Little Question (1948), and in 1950 was briefly within the play Period In SUNLIGHT. Her effective performing style and appealing physical appearance proclaimed her out for …

Chico O’Farrill was ideal within the thick from the Afro-Cuban and Latin waves that strike jazz in the past due ’40s and ’50s. His advanced composing for Latin big rings of the first ’50s was frequently daring, brassy, and anxious, yet he may possibly also attain a delicate, nearly classical …

Biz Markie’s inclination toward juvenile laughter and his fondness for goofy, tuneless, half-sung choruses camouflaged his true abilities being a freestyle rhymer. The Biz might not have been in a position to convert his outrageous rhyming abilities to tape, but what he do record was worth it in its way. …

b. John Cassidy, 5 March 1927, Richmond Hill, NY, USA, d. 12 March 1976, LA, California, USA. A flexible actor and vocalist who, also in his old age, seemed to maintain his younger appearance, Cassidy produced his Broadway debut at age 17 within the chorus from the 1943 Cole Porter …

b. 23 Feb 1926, the Bronx, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 30 Sept 2006, LA, California, USA. After college, Bigley studied on the Juilliard College of Music in NY and produced her Broadway debut in 1946 within the chorus of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! It had been with …

b. c.1960, South Bronx, NY, USA. Chris Ward got all the correct qualifications to enter the machismo globe of the honky-tonk vocalist in the middle-90s – his previous professions included being truly a rodeo bull rider, a Marine sergeant along with a SWAT group member inside a Californian law enforcement …

Vocalist Coko (née Cheryl Gamble) was one-third from the R&B trio SWV, who all had a string of graph hits within the mid-’90s. Following the group split up in 1998, Coko embarked on a single profession and released the one Sunshine as well as the record Hot Coko per year …

b. 12 August 1937, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Norman is certainly among the many talented and ubiquitous R&B performers who’ve had a humble but unforgettable effect on the music picture. His initial professional knowledge was as an associate of the LA group the Chargers, who documented several doo-wop information for RCA …

Born LaRon Adam in Harlem, the energetic Juelz Santana trim his teeth seeing that an MC using the duo Draft Get. He didn’t strike the big style until 2000, when Cam’ron granted him a visitor i’m all over this S.D.E.’s “Increase Up.” Santana joined up with Cam’ron’s Diplomats, added several …

b. 12 July 1939, Astoria, NY, USA. Dino positioned one single in america pop Best 30 in 1961, ‘Your Ma Stated You Cried INSIDE YOUR Sleep Last Evening’ (protected in the united kingdom by Doug Sheldon). He was raised in Hicksville, NY, and enlisted within the navy in 1957. Stationed …