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This category contains nightclub singers, dancers, comedians, and musicians. Pages in category "Nightclub performers" The following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total.
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A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may also be referred to as a nightclub act. A scheduled performance, such as a wedding gig, is a club date. [1]
She worked in the 1970s and 1980s as a singer in Manhattan nightclubs. She was also a voice teacher and songwriter. [1] [2] While working as a singer, she met Revlon cosmetics heir John Revson. After a six-year courtship, they were married for a year. [2]
Known as Régine, she became a torch singer; by 1953, she was a nightclub manager in Paris.She is attributed with the invention of the modern-day discothèque, [8] by virtue of creating a new dynamic atmosphere at Paris' Whisky à Gogo, with the ubiquitous jukebox replaced by disc jockeys utilizing linked turntables.
Jazz singer and Broadway star Adelaide Hall and her husband Bert Hicks opened the nightclub La Grosse Pomme on Rue Pigalle in Montmartre on December 9, 1937. [18] Hall and Hicks also owned the chic Florida Club in London's Mayfair. [19] In Germany during the Golden Twenties, there was a need to dance away the memories of the First World War.
Beverly Shaw (ca. 1910–May 26, 1990) was an American nightclub singer whose career centered on lesbian clubs in California. She was also the owner of a gay nightclub in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), [1] known professionally as Nat King Cole, alternatively billed as Nat "King" Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs ...