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Memorable Jazz Quotes - Rate Your Music  "I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to ... He said this was the first time that he had all the music in his head at once to record." ... He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a ...... instrument was very similar to the vibrato I used with my voice as a singer.
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jeopardy/2583_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Robin Maisel: an attorney from Long Beach, California (whose 1-day cash ... ANIMAL OFFSPRING | The male young of these are called cockerels; the .... "The Vibrato", he was 1 of the 1st black singers to break the color barrier | Billy Eckstine.
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Elvis Presley - Wikiquote  1 Quotes; 2 Song lyrics; 3 Disputed; 4 Misattributed; 5 Quotes about Presley ..... The people didn't care if he was white or black, he was a good artist and they ...... to the vibrato of the Gospel singers he loved, his voice invariably possessing ..... In fact, Elvis Presley was the first white artist to blur the lines of color among artists.
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Clue Watch: Sammy Davis Jr. and More  Fikkle Fame  Dec 19, 2015 ... 12-16-1987 SHOW BIZ BILLYs $800: Nicknamed The Vibrato, he was 1 of the 1st black singers to break the color barrier 07-14-2014 MOVIE...
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Voice of the Century - The New Yorker  Apr 13, 2009 ... In her early years, Anderson was known as the colored contralto, but, ... Arturo Toscanini said that she was the kind of singer who comes along ... and the Constitution, and he mentioned Anderson's performance in his .... She broke a momentous barrier in 1955, when she became the first black soloist to...
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Soul singer Levi Stubbs remained fiercely loyal to ... - Daily Telegraph  Jun 5, 2016 ... ... studio in 1956 to lay down their first songs, they had hopes of making it big. ... The Four Tops  Renaldo Benson, Levi Stubbs, Abdul Fakir and Lawrence Payton ... they changed their name to the Four Tops  the name under which ... were aiming for stardom, and they were soon performing regularly,...
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Seven Memorable Soul Train Moments | The Urban Daily  Feb 1, 2012 ... Here are seven memorable moments on Soul Train. ... Gino Vanelli Becomes First White Artist To Perform ... Rosie Perez Gets Her Janet Jackson Dance On ... Rosie always danced harder when told to act like a lady. ... Gladys Knight & The Pips are quietly one of the most important groups to ever appear on...
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Al Jolson - Wikipedia  Al Jolson was an American singer, film actor, and comedian. At the peak of his career, he was .... In the show, Jolson again sang in blackface and managed to become so popular that his weekly salary of $500 (based on his ... In 1916, Robinson Crusoe, Jr. was the first musical in which he was featured as the star character.
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May 18, 1953: Jackie Cochran, First Woman to Break Sound Barrier ...  May 18, 2011 ... Cochran was already famous (as an aviatrix and racing pilot) and wealthy (through marriage) when she broke the sound barrier over Rogers Dry Lake, California, flying a Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabrejet. In moving from subsonic to supersonic speed, Cochran averaged 652 mph.
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Michael Jackson's health and appearance - Wikipedia  Michael Jackson at the White House in May 1984. Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958  June 25, 2009) was an American singer who spent over ... It was in this interview that Jackson stated he had a skin disorder (vitiligo) and ... I can't control it. ... Michael sent somebody to find out if I had any foundation make-up he could...
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Four Pioneering African American Singers in Opera - Classical ...  On January 7, 1955, history was made when Marian Anderson (18971993) became the first African American singer to perform with the Metropolitan Opera ... place in opera history was secured on September 30, 1935, when he created the role ... she became the first African American woman to appear with a major opera...
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ROCK / A shame about the girl: When she died in 1963, Dinah ...  Aug 5, 1992 ... 'You can see her as a blues singer,' says Clive Otis, the first black ... Two years later, in 1945, she signed to Mercury and rapidly became their biggest selling artist. ... out of a studio once when she was having a fight with Brook Benton. ... 'I've been to more Dinah weddings than the rest put together,' says...
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Classic in Black  It was on Easter Sunday in 1939 that Miss Anderson gave what is perhaps her ... Marian Anderson became the first African American to perform at the Met, ... Her debut on January 7, 1955, marked the first time that an African American ...... Shirley, winner of the 1960-61 Metropolitan Opera auditions, was born April 18, 1934
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Marian Anderson: The First African-American Woman to Perform ...  She was also the first African-American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .... a music school for a year, and in 1955 she became the first African American ...... New York Governor Averell Harriman, and Nobel Prize winner and political ..... the first African-American soloist to sing at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
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Ralph Ellison: the man who made Black America visible - Telegraph  Mar 1, 2014 ... Invisible Man came out in 1952 when the author was 39 years old. ... He listens to Louis Armstrong sing What Did I Do To Be So Black And Blue ... to New York with ambitions of being a trumpeter and worked as a waiter, a janitor and in a factory, as well as getting the occasional writing job. .... Photography.
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Leontyne Price Biography - life, parents, school, young, old ...  Leontyne Price was a prima donna soprano (the lead female singer in an opera) ... Price was the first African American singer to gain international stardom in opera, ... she made her debut in New York's famous Metropolitan Opera as Leonora in Il ... Leonora in Il Trovatore, Amelia in The Masked Ball, and especially as Aida.
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Nat King Cole - Film Actor, Pianist, Television Actor, Singer ...  Jan 1, 2016 ... Nat King Cole became the first African-American performer to host a variety TV series in 1956. ... The following year, Cole started to put together what would become the King ... The 1962 country-influenced hit "Rambin' Rose" reached the ... The title track of the album remains hugely popular to this day, and...
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Black conductors - Wikipedia  Black conductors are musicians of African, Caribbean, African-American ancestry and other ... In 1955, Lee was the "...first musician of colour to conduct a major opera ... in the US with a performance of La Traviata at the New York City Opera. ... Philharmonic Orchestra and became the first African American to conduct a...
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Chuck Yeager: First Person to Break the Sound Barrier - Space.com  Jun 11, 2014 ... Chuck Yeager: First Person to Break the Sound Barrier ... By that point, Yeager was a young member of the Army Air Corps. ... plane) became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight on Oct. 14, 1947.
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James Brown - Southern Soul Music Artist - Southern Soul RnB  Daddy B. Nice's #12 ranked Southern Soul Forerunner ... Brown also had talent as a boxer and flirted with a professional career during this time, ... Brown's energy and flamboyance soon propelled him into the "front man" role in ... a litle over a year later in the seminal funk hit, "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag. ..... 3: 1964-1965
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Jan 7, 1955 Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the ...  In 1961, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she .... Baker was the first African-American female to star in a major motion picture, ..... Hattie McDaniel made history when she became the first African American to .... first black singer to perform at Metropolitan Opera House on January 7, 1955.