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DeLois Barrett Campbell (1926 - August 2, 2011) was a part of the Barrett Sisters Trio along with her sisters Rodessa and Billie. She started her career in gospel music as a member of the Roberta Martin Singers.

Jacques Offenbach

06/20/1819 - 05/10/1880

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted operaThe Tales of H...
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Herman Stein

08/19/1915 - 03/15/2007

Herman Stein (August 19, 1915 – March 15, 2007) was an American composer who wrote music for many of the 1950s science-fiction and horror films from Universal Studios

Ella Jane Fitzgerald

04/25/1917 - 06/15/1996

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (Db3 to Db6), she was noted...
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Jerry Goldsmith (Jerrald King Goldsmith)

02/10/1929 - 07/21/2004

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring.

Jimmy Dorsey (James Dorsey)

04/29/1904 - 06/12/1957

James "Jimmy" Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD". He c...
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Charles Mingus

04/22/1922 - 01/05/1979

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.

Harold Clifford Keel

04/13/1919 - 11/07/2004

Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004), known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s. He is best known to...
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Teresa Brewer

05/07/1931 - 10/17/2007

Teresa Brewer (7 May 1931 – 17 October 2007) was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B, musicals and novelty songs.

John Lee Hooker

08/22/1917 - 06/21/2001

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing...
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Al Hirt

11/07/1922 - 04/27/1999

Al Hirt (November 7, 1922 – April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java", and the accompanying album, Honey in the Horn (1963). His nicknames included...
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Jimi Hendrix (James Marshall Hendrix)

11/27/1942 - 09/18/1970

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in musical histo...
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Cole Albert Porter

06/09/1891 - 10/15/1964

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like ...
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Ruth Brown

01/30/1928 - 11/17/2006

Ruth Brown (January 30, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music...
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Eva Narcissus Boyd

06/29/1943 - 04/10/2003

Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva (after a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin), was an American pop singer.

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