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being, was shared with the world through all that he created. Through his music and his boundless love, Quincy Jones' heart will beat for eternity."Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black executi...
The Canadian singer-songwriter rose to prominence during the folk music revival of the 1960s, He seamlessly blended spirituality and sexuality in songs like “Hallelujah,”‘’Suzanne,”“So Long Marianne” and “Bird on a Wire,” winning him fans around the world and among fellow musicians lik...
Shorter composed 20 albums as a bandleader of the Weather Report. He also recorded several albums for Blue Note Records, composing the majority of the music. 48. Zandra Flemister U.S. Secret Service agent Zandra Flemister has died at the age of 71. She was the first Black woman to serv...
As a teen, Lesley Gore became the powerfully ubiquitous and feminist voice of Sixties pop. She spent the following decades outside of the teen idol spotlight, going to Sarah Lawrence for college and getting an Oscar nomination for the score toFame, which she composed with her brother Michael...
Between 1965 and 1975 he composed the music to over five dozen songs and choral works, chiefly to texts by poets such as Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, James Agee, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein and Walt Whitman. His instrumental works include the score to a 1972 film by Erich Kollmar...
This directory is not just composed of graduates of this school, as some of the famous people on this list didn't necessarily earn a degree from Oberlin College. List is made up of many different graduates, including Liz Phair and Lena Dunham. This list answers the questions “Which ...
, composer, producer, arranger – died at 91 (he composed the soundtracks for many crime films, such as In the Heat of the Night, and lived in Seattle in the late ’40s where he become fast friends with Ray Charles Nov. 8: Tony Todd, ‘Candyman’ and ‘Final...
Composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the "West Side Story" film soundtrack upped the production ante on the already-popular Broadway cast recording to wildly successful results. Not only is this album one of the bestselling soundtracks of all time, but it held the #1...
Tom Hardy, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Sam Heughan and more are all in the running for the keys to the DB5, but it could be any of these people