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Simon Estes (born March 2, 1938) is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s. He has sung at most of the world's major opera houses as well as in front of presidents, popes and internationally renowned figures and celebrities including Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon ...
President of Memphis State University from 1960–1972 Mark E. Keenum S: Mississippi State, 1984 President of Mississippi State University, 2009–present. James R. Killian S: MIT 1925 10th President of MIT, special assistant for science and technology to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957–1959 Robert Lindgren S: University of Florida, 1976
Paul Leroy Robeson (/ ˈroʊbsən / ROHB-sən; [ 2 ][ 3 ] April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances. In 1915, Robeson won an academic scholarship to Rutgers College in ...
In the 1960s, Ionia State Hospital, located in Ionia, Michigan, was one of America's largest and most notorious state psychiatric hospitals in the era before deinstitutionalization. Doctors at this hospital diagnosed African Americans with schizophrenia because of their civil rights ideas. See The Protest Psychosis. Plutonium injections
Bowen, Denny. Drummer for the Baltimore-based rock band Double Dagger and sole member of electronic/mashup project, Smart Growth. Boyer, Derek. Former bassist for the Annapolis-based death metal band Dying Fetus. Branagan, Steve. Drummer for Maryland-based doom metal bands Revelation and Against Nature.
Bill Gaither was born in Alexandria, Indiana, in 1936 to George and Lela Gaither.He formed his first group the Bill Gaither Trio (consisting of Bill, his sister Mary Ann (1945–2018), [1] and brother Danny Gaither (1938–2001) in 1956 while a college student at Anderson College, to which he had transferred after one year at Taylor University.
Bill Haley and His Comets in 1956. Left to right: Rudy Pompilli, Billy Williamson, Al Rex, Bill Haley, Johnny Grande, Ralph Jones, and Franny Beecher. Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band formed in 1947 and continuing until Haley's death in 1981. The band was also known as Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets.
Musical artist. William Michael Albert Broad(born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is a British and American[1]singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He first achieved fame in the 1970s emerging from the London punk rockscene as the lead singer of the group Generation X. Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which ...