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George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) [3] is an American jazz fusion guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist. A former child prodigy , Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others.
George Frederick Percy Benson (11 January 1911 – 17 June 1983) was a British actor of both theatre and screen, whose career stretched from the 1930s to the early 1970s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was on stage from the late 1920s, and made his film debut in 1932 in Holiday Lovers written by Leslie Arliss .
Benson had three children, two sons and a stepson. [3] His first wife, Mabel Benson, died in 1983. He later married Katharine Corbett Lowe Benson, who died on March 1, 1999. Charles Burt Sumner, the de facto first president of Pomona College, was his grandfather. [1] [2]
The late 1980s were hectic for George Benson—maybe even busier than the late 1970s, when he notched massive crossover hits like “Give Me the Night” and “Turn Your Love Around.” The ...
Feuding parties: wife and children John Seward Johnson I was one of the sons of Robert Wood Johnson I, a co-founder of Johnson & Johnson. When he died in 1983 of prostate cancer, he left almost ...
Glenn Alan Medeiros (born June 24, 1970) is an American former singer best known for his 1987 George Benson cover, "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You", which reached No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the charts in Canada and the United Kingdom. It also topped the charts in a further four countries in Europe.
George Benson appeared on his 1992 Color Me Blue album. Despite having health problems, McDuff continued working and recording throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and he toured Japan with Atsuko Hashimoto in 2000.
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