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Wingy Manone born 13 February 1900
Wingy Manone (13 February 1900 – 9 July 1982) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, singer, and bandleader. His major recordings included "Tar Paper Stomp", "Nickel in the Slot", "Downright...
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Magic Sam born 14 February 1937
Samuel Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 – December 1, 1969), known as Magic Sam, was an American Chicago blues musician. He was born in Grenada County, Mississippi, United States, and learned to play...
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Henry MacKenzie born 15 February 1923
Henry Mackenzie, (February 15, 1923 - September 2, 2007) was a clarinettist and saxophonist who enjoyed a high-profile career in British jazz and big-band music after first making a reputation in his...
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Jimmy Wakely born 16 February 1914
James Clarence Wakely (February 16, 1914 – September 23, 1982), was an American actor and country Western music vocalist, and one of the last singing cowboys. Wakeley was born in Howard County,...
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Inge Brandenburg born 18 February 1929
Inge Brandenburg (born February 18, 1929 in Leipzig , died February 23, 1999 in Munich) was a German jazz singer and theatre actress . She is often referred to as the best German jazz singer of the...
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Sam Myers born 19 February 1936
Samuel Joseph Myers (February 19, 1936 – July 17, 2006) was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was an accompanist on dozens of recordings by blues artists over five decades. He began his...
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Andres Segovia born 21 February 1893
Andrés Segovia Torres, (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987) known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Spain. He could be considered as one of the fathers of the...
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Pat Kirkwood born 24 February 1921
Pat Kirkwood (24 February 1921 – 25 December 2007) was a British stage actress, singer and dancer who appeared in numerous performances of dramas, cabaret, revues, music hall, variety and pantomimes....
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Tiny Parham born 25 February 1900
Hartzell Strathdene "Tiny" Parham (February 25, 1900 – April 4, 1943) was a Canadian-born American jazz bandleader and pianist of African-American descent. Some musicians are only known to specialized...
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Betty Hutton born 26 February 1921
Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg; February 26, 1921 – March 12, 2007) was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer, and singer. Betty Hutton was born Elizabeth June...
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Mildred Bailey born 27 February 1901
Mildred Bailey (February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a popular and influential American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "Mrs. Swing". Her number one hits were "Please Be Kind", "Darn That...
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Svend Asmussen born 28 February 1916
Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 – 7 February 2017) was a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking". A Swing style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many of the greats of Jazz,...
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Jimmy Little born 1 March 1937
James Oswald “Jimmy” Little, AO (1 March 1937 – 2 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher from the Yorta Yorta people and was raised on the Cummeragunja Mission, New South...
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Desi Arnaz born 2 March 1917
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), better known as Desi Arnaz or Desi Arnaz, Sr., was a Cuban-born American actor, musician, and television producer. He is best...
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Margaret Bonds born 3 March 1913
Margaret Allison Bonds (March 3, 1913 – April 26, 1972) was an American composer and pianist. One of the first black composers and performers to gain recognition in the United States, she is best...
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Ben Selvin born 5 March 1898
Benjamin Bernard Selvin (March 5, 1898 – July 15, 1980) was an American musician, bandleader, and record producer. He was known as the Dean of Recorded Music. Selvin was the son of Jewish Russian...
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Bob Wills born 6 March 1905
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers...
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Danyel Gerard born 7 March 1939
Danyel Gérard (born Gérard Daniel Kherlakian, 7 March 1939) is a French pop singer and composer. Gérard was born in Paris, France to an Armenian father and an Italian mother, but grew up mainly in Rio...
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Betty Bonney born 8 March 1924
Betty Bonney (born Betty Jane Bonney March 8, 1924, Norfolk, Virginia) was an accomplished American band singer during the final years of the swing era. Later known as Judy Johnson, she was most...
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Jerry Byrd born 9 March 1920
Gerald Lester "Jerry" Byrd (March 9, 1920 – April 11, 2005), was an American musician who played the lap steel guitar in country and Hawaiian music, as well as a singer-songwriter and the head of a...
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