Also ranks #34 on The Greatest Black Female Soul Singers 13 Cleo Laine Age: 92 153 votes Cleo Laine released the album Jazz Matters in March 2010, as the final collaboration between her and late husband John Dankworth, who passed away in February of that year. Birthplace: Middlesex, En...
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Victoria, a penniless soprano, schemes with a struggling impresario to disguise herself as a man named Victor – who entertains as a female impersonator known as ‘Victoria’ – and as a result becomes the toast of Paris. Complications arise when a Chicago mobster sees the act, and finds ...
British jazz bassist, record producer Malcolm Cecil died age 84. He was a founding member of a leading UK jazz quintet of the late 1950s, the Jazz Couriers and later joined Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner to form the original line-up of Blues Incorporated. Cecil subsequently collaborated with...
Female Trouble(1974)– Juvenile delinquent Dawn Davenport (Divine) proves that “crime is beauty” on her way to the electric chair A Field in England(2013)– Deserters from the English Civil War eat psychedelic mushrooms and hunt for buried treasure at an alchemist’s command ...
adult contemporary, disco, black, latin, jazz, blues, gospel, country. The type of music LIFE had made was the style that could feature on the adult contemporary chart, the disco chart and the black chart. But major labels execs were totally confused about what product to license for ...
Today we explain a very old saying that has had a big influence on rock-and-roll music.That saying is a rolling stone gathers no moss.It has several meanings.One meaning is that a person who never settles down in one place will not be successful.Another is that someone who is always ...
Country crooner LeAnn Rimes was just 14 years old in 1997 when she was awarded Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, becoming theyoungest Grammy winner of all time. In interviews that evening, country legend Clint Black quipped “When I was 14, I had a paper route.” ...
Country crooner LeAnn Rimes was just 14 years old in 1997 when she was awarded Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, becoming theyoungest Grammy winner of all time. In interviews that evening, country legend Clint Black quipped “When I was 14, I had a paper route.” ...
The fifth album from War--and the band's third without Eric Burdon of The Animals-- rocketed to success on the back of its lead song, "The Cisco Kid." Incorporating a variety of influences, the album explores jazz, funk, rock, soul, and blues to brilliant effect. That's joined by ...