Category: 1960s
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Olga Guillot
About Olga Guillot was a Cuban singer who was known as the “Queen of Bolero”. She was a native of Santiago de Cuba. Albums/Songs: Interpreta a Manzanero El Son se fue de Cuba “Cuba” Las Grandes Damas De La Cancion Vivir de los recuerdos Serie 30 Exitos: Cuba – Las Grandes Damas Grandes boleros en…
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Armando Manzanero
About Armando Manzanero Canché was a Mexican musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in the United States in 2014. He was the president of the Mexican…
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Franco Luambo
About François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi was a Congolese musician. He was a major figure in 20th-century Congolese music, and African music in general, principally as the leader for over 30 years of TPOK Jazz, the most popular and significant African band of its time and arguably of all time. He is referred to as Franco…
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Randy Weston
About Randolph Edward “Randy” Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection. Albums/Songs: African Cookbook The Healers Little Niles Blue Randy Weston Meets Himself Volcano Blues Piano A-la-mode Saga The Modern Art of Jazz by Randy Weston Rhythms and Sounds Piano Earth Birth Berkshire Blues Uhuru…
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Marcel Amont
About Marcel Amont was a French singer of the 1960s and 1970s. Amont also recorded in Occitan and promoted Bearn culture from the 1950s. Albums/Songs: Marcel Amont Les Plus Grands Succès – 4 – Nos chansons de leurs 20 ans Marcel Amont Heritage – Escamillo – Polydor (1956-1957) Amont-Tour Heritage – Bleu, Blanc, Blond –…
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Françoise Hardy
About Françoise Madeleine Hardy was a French singer-songwriter and actress who was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in French yé-yé music and became a cultural icon in France and internationally. In addition to her native French, she also sang in English, Italian,…
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Léo Ferré
About Léo Ferré was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and the majority of the lyrics. He released many hit singles, particularly between 1960 and the mid-1970s. Some of his songs have become classics of the French…
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Charles Aznavour
About Charles Aznavour was a French singer of Armenian ancestry, as well as a lyricist, actor and diplomat. Aznavour was known for his distinctive vibrato tenor voice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes. In a career as a composer, singer and songwriter, spanning over 70 years, he recorded…
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Mighty Sparrow
About Slinger Francisco ORTT CM OBE, better known as Mighty Sparrow, is a Trinidadian calypso vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist. Known as the “Calypso King of the World”, he is one of the best-known and most successful calypsonians. He has won Trinidad’s Carnival Road March competition eight times, Calypso King/Monarch eight times, and has twice won…
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Stan Getz
About Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as “The Sound” because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman’s big band, Getz is described by…
