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You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, […]
This is a list of notable African-American singers that gives their year of birth ... (born 1950 ): R&B, pop, jazz; Roy ... (1927–2022), singerknown as the black ...
Joyce Bryant (October 14, 1927 – November 20, 2022) was an American singer, dancer, and civil rights activist who achieved fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a theater and nightclub performer.
Dinah Washington (/ ˈ d aɪ n ə /; born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular black female recording artists of the 1950s. [1]
The “Godfather of Soul” burst onto the scene in the mid-1950s with his electrifying voice, provocative dance moves and edgy grooves. He wasn’t called the “hardest working man in show ...
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
Smith was born on May 1, 1907, in Greenville, Virginia, to Charlotte 'Lottie' Yarnell (née Hanby) and William Herman Smith and grew up in Washington, D.C. [5] Her father owned the Capitol News Company, distributing newspapers and magazines in the greater D.C. area. [6] She was the youngest of three daughters, the middle child dying in infancy.
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