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Billie Holiday(born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazzand swing musicsinger. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and popsinging. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of ...
In 2004, she released the soul/jazz standards The Dana Owens Album. On July 11, 2007, Latifah sang at the famed Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as the headlining act in a live jazz concert. In front of a crowd of more than 12,400, she was backed by a 10-piece live orchestra and three backup vocalists, which was billed as the Queen Latifah Orchestra.
Machito, jazz singer and bandleader; Fats Navarro (1923–1950), American jazz trumpet player; a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s; of Cuban-Black-Chinese descent [90] Chico O'Farrill, jazz trumpeter; composer, arranger; Arturo Sandoval, jazz trumpeter and pianist; composer; Mongo Santamaría, Latin jazz musician ...
Portsmouth is also home to the Fred W. Beazley Portsmouth Campus of Tidewater Community College, a two-year higher education institution founded in 1968 in South Hampton Roads with additional campuses located in Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach. [69] Angelos Bible College was established in 1984.
Hampton (/ ˈ h æ m p t ə n /) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 137,148 as of the 2020 census, making it the seventh-most populous city in Virginia. [7] Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, the 37th-largest in the United States, with a total population of ...
A Florida sheriff is tired of “bogus” school shooting hoaxes plaguing his county – so tired, he’s got a slew of strong words and actions ready for students and parents alike: if you make a ...
Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro in Jalisco, Mexico on July 20, 1947. He learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight, under the tutelage of his father, who was a mariachi musician. [ 7 ] His younger brother, Jorge, also became a professional guitarist.
Ray Charles. Ray Charles Robinson[a] (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and composer. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called "Brother ...