Category: 1950s
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Miles Davis
About Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.…
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Amalia Rodrigues
About Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues, better known as Amália Rodrigues or popularly as Amália, was a Portuguese fadista. Albums/Songs: Fado…The Soul of Portugal A una terra che amo Fados 67 La Fabulosa Tudo isto é fado Amália Rodrigues Amalia in Italia Oiça lá ó Senhor Vinho Coimbra Lágrima Encontro com Don Byas Fado Amália…
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Hibari Misora
About Hibari Misora was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon. She received a Medal of Honor for her contributions to music and for improving the welfare of the public, and was the first woman to receive the People’s Honour Award, which was conferred posthumously for giving the public hope and encouragement after World War…
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Edith Piaf
About Édith Piaf was a French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France’s greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century. Albums/Songs: 25e anniversaire, Volume 2 De L’Accordéoniste à Milord Chansons parisiennes Disque d’or Piaf Tonight La…
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Sonny Rollins
About Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins is an American former jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader. A number of his compositions, including “St. Thomas”, “Oleo”, “Doxy”, and “Airegin”, have become jazz standards.…
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Johnny Horton
About John LaGale Horton was an American country, honky tonk and rockabilly musician during the 1950s. He is best known for a series of history-inspired narrative country saga songs that became international hits. His 1959 single “The Battle of New Orleans” was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song…
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Eartha Kitt
About Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of “C’est si bon” and the Christmas novelty song “Santa Baby”. Albums/Songs: Glamour ‘Miss Kitt,’ to You Down to Eartha With Sergio Mendes and Brazil ’66 Bad but Beautiful St. Louis Blues I Don’t…
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Ruth Brown
About Ruth Alston Brown was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the “Queen of R&B”. She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as “So Long”, “Teardrops from My Eyes” and “(Mama) He Treats Your…
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John Lee Hooker
About John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie…
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Eddy Arnold
About Richard Edward Arnold was an American country music singer. He was a Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of…
