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Baker was born in Chicago, Illinois to Albanian parents, Janet and Walter Baker, that had emigrated from Berat, Albania [18] on May 5, 1986. He attended high school at New Trier High School and film school at the University of Miami. After realizing the potential of video sharing on the internet, he started filming comedy videos in his backyard ...
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2019.
James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.
Stuart Hamblen (1908–1989), actor, singer, and songwriter Thomas F. Hamilton (1894–1969), founder of the Hamilton Standard propeller company John Hancock (1941–1992), actor
“Songs outlive people,” Strong told The New York Times in 2013. “The real reason Motown worked was the publishing. The records were just a vehicle to get the songs out there to the public.
Legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach, who scored an astonishing 73 top 40 hits in the United States across a 70+ year career in the music business, died in Los Angeles yesterday (Feb. 8) of natural ...
Burt Freeman Bacharach (/ ˈ b æ k ər æ k / BAK-ə-rak; May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music.
Margaret De Patta (1903–1964), jewelry, part of the mid-century jewelry movement; lived and died in San Francisco [45] Peter Macchiarini (1909–2001), and his spouse Virginia Macchiarini, jewelry designers and have a workshop in North Beach [46] Merry Renk (1921–2012), jewelry design, goldsmith; lived and died in San Francisco [47]