Tag Archives: Torch Songs

A cool-toned Austrian jazz vocalist, Simone Kopmajer sings in flawless British. She had traditional piano lessons beginning at age eight with 12 started playing saxophone. She performed within a youngsters big music group and sang frequently in her father’s music group as an adolescent. At 17 she examined with Sheila …

A hybrid singing band of types, Friedel Hensch & Pass away Cyprys were a massively popular quartet in Germany from 1946 before end from the 1960s. Hensch was created on July 7, 1906, in the German city of Landsberg/Warthe (right now a part of Poland and known as Gorzow Wielkopolski) …

A talented jazz vocalist located in the Cleveland area, Barbara Knight released her initial Compact disc with her functioning quartet, Angel Eye, in 2007. Knight began on her profession a little past due, no longer working on learning to be a jazz vocalist until she experienced a chance to sing …

Seldom recorded vocalist whose output was mainly confined for some past due-’50s sessions about Dawn. Among these continues to be reissued on New Sound.

Singer/celebrity Helen Morgan was an iconic amount from the 1920s, a nightclub performer known on her behalf heart-rending interpretations of torch music describing intimate devotion to wayward guys, which she sang from her perch together with a piano. Morgan’s environment was the nightclub, specifically, the ’20s speakeasy, but she also …

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 …

Given birth to Gisele Lafleche in Winnipeg, Canada, Gisele MacKenzie was known on her behalf pop/rock strikes “Hard to Get” and “Pepper-Hot Baby.” She was a normal vocalist on your own Strike Parade from 1953-57. Her musical and performing career required her from documenting studios, to r / c, to …

The orchestra of Gus Arnheim released or helped made many a performer’s career, most well-known included in this Bing Crosby, who got an enormous push in the music business when Crosby’s sophomore outfit referred to as the Rhythm Boys cut a small number of sides using the Arnheim Music group. …

An intermittent duet partner with Guy Mitchell and a single designer in her personal correct, vocalist Mindy Carson was functioning like a secretary whenever a nightclub supervisor convinced her to begin with singing professionally. She found function around NY, and in the middle-’40s produced her radio debut on the display …

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