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Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. [11] [12] [13] Maxwell's father died in a plane crash around 1976 or 1977 when Maxwell was three years old. [14] Maxwell grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. [15]
Baciliky Andris "Betty" Maxwell (née Cantrell; born September 1, 1994) is an American singer, actress, model, author, and beauty pageant titleholder from Warner Robins, Georgia, who was crowned Miss Georgia 2015. [1] On September 13, 2015, she was crowned Miss America 2016 by Miss America 2015, Kira Kazantsev.
Charmayne Maxena Maxwell (January 11, 1969 – February 28, 2015 [1]), professionally known as Maxee, was a Guyana-born American singer and songwriter. In the mid-1990s, Maxwell came to prominence as a member of the female R&B trio Brownstone .
Thomas Edward Maxwell was born September 19, 1965, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. His parents are Joseph Maxwell and Nancy (née Miller) Maxwell. In 1972, his family moved to Burnsville, North Carolina. [1] In elementary school, Maxwell began playing alto sax. When he was fourteen, he taught himself to play the drums.
Maxwell was born into a poor Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish family and had six siblings. Most of his relatives were murdered in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944 by Nazi Germany, but years earlier he had escaped to France. [4] In May 1940, he joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile in Marseille. [7]
In 1966, he appeared as Père Ubu in Jarry's Ubu Roi, [7] and in 1972 he toured with Mott the Hoople on their "Rock n' Roll Circus Tour", gaining a new audience. [8] Wall re-emerged during the 1970s when producers and directors rediscovered his comic talents, along with the expressive power of his tragic clown face and the distinctive sad falling cadences of his voice.
Holle Thee Maxwell (born Holly Maxwell; October 17, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter. Maxwell has performed with soul and blues artist Ike Turner and jazz organist Jimmy Smith . Maxwell wrote a song for Bobby Bland 's 1978 album, Come Fly with Me .
Stage and film director Vincente Minnelli (1903–1986), saw young Maxwell when she was 16 years old and a high school student in Brooklyn, New York.He had her do a screen test to use her in one of his films then in production, possibly to portray Frank Sinatra's character Dave Hirsch's niece Dawn Hirsch," daughter of his older brother Frank, later played by Betty Lou Keim (1938–2010), who ...