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Get ready to travel back in time as we review some of the most famous Black singers from the 50s. ... Male Black singers from the 50s, in particular, risked their careers by defying restrictive ...
African-American male singer-songwriters (380 P) Pages in category "African-American male singers" The following 151 pages are in this category, out of 151 total.
Alyson Cambridge (born 1980): operatic soprano and classical music, jazz, and American popular song singer Cam'ron : Hip hop Mariah Carey (born 1969): R&B, pop, hip-hop, soul
Lawrence Winters (né Lawrence Lafayette Whisonant; 15 November 1915 King's Creek, South Carolina – 24 September 1965 Hamburg, Germany), bass-baritone, was an American opera singer who had an active international career from the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s. He was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success ...
25 famous Black singers and their most popular songs ... The “Godfather of Soul” burst onto the scene in the mid-1950s with his electrifying voice, provocative dance moves and edgy grooves ...
In the early 1950s, there were only two black male singers who were widely accepted by white audiences as mainstream pop stars: Nat King Cole and Billy Eckstine. [11] Epic saw that same kind of "crossover" star potential in Hamilton, [ 5 ] placing a nearly full-page ad in the January 23, 1954 edition of Billboard magazine which read, "a great ...
Frankie Laine (at piano) and Patti Page, c. 1950 Harry Belafonte, 1954 This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s . Musicians
Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984), also known as Jackie Wilson, was an American singer who was a prominent figure in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul.