Ella Fitzgeraldwas known as The First Lady of Song for good reason. She won 13 Grammys, recorded over 200 albums, and was a regular on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Tonight Show." She also fought relentlessly against discrimination as a Black woman artist during the Jim Crow era. Fitz...
Brown was a major influence on Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, and Wynton Marsalis, among others. According to Sonny Rollins, who was recovering from a heroin addiction, “Clifford was a profound influence on my personal life. He showed me that it was possible to live a good, clean life and...
His busy schedule also included the founding of his own company, Qwest Productions, and stints providing arrangements for Peggy Lee, Vaughan, Billy Eckstine and Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra and his own bands. After producing the soundtrack for the 1978 film “The Wiz” — which featuredDiana Rossand...
as he described years later in a CBS interview: “In the beginning the question was, ‘Why did I survive? Why?’ Every survivor had that question. Every survivor is haunted by that question to this day.
Howard was the first president of SAG-AFTRA and was re-elected to the post last year. Recounting the actor’s influence on him, George Clooney said that “Today his obituary read that he was six foot six, but he was so much taller than that.”...
Morris began his acting career at the Anna Scher Theatre in London. After training under Scher, he went on to spend three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which he merits as being a major influence on his craft. Morris currently resides in Los Angeles and recently became a US cit...
When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020, not only did it abruptly impede the progress that was being made toward achieving global targets to end the HIV pandemic, but it also created significant impacts on the physical and mental health of middle-aged and older men who have sex wi...
Although Elisabeth had a limited (but significant) influence on Austro-Hungarian politics, she became an historical icon. The Empress is now thought to have been a non-conformist who abhorred conventional court protocol, as well as a free spirit, who valued an individual sense of freedom above ...