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Mimi Perrin born 2 February 1926
Jeannine "Mimi" Perrin (February 2, 1926 – November 16, 2010) was a French jazz pianist and singer, and translator.Perrin received private musical instruction, including piano as a child and pursued...
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Johnny Cymbal born 3 February 1945
Johnny Cymbal (born John Hendry Blair; February 3, 1945 – March 16, 1993) was a multi-talented individual who assumed various roles in the music industry, and recorded records for a variety of labels...
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Jutta Hipp born 4 February 1925
Jutta Hipp (February 4, 1925 – April 7, 2003*) was a jazz pianist and composer who enjoyed a brief period as a promising jazz pianist for whom a great future was predicted, until nervousness and...
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Roy Smeck born 6 February 1900
Leroy Smeck (6 February 1900 – 5 April 1994) was an American musician. His skill on the banjo, guitar, and ukulele earned him the nickname "The Wizard of the Strings".Born in Reading, Pennsylvania,...
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Buddy Morrow born 8 February 1919
Buddy Morrow (born Muni Zudekoff, aka Moe Zudekoff; February 8, 1919, New Haven, Connecticut – September 27, 2010) was an American trombonist and bandleader. He is known for his mastery of the upper...
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Ernest Tubb born 9 February 1914
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the "Texas Troubadour", was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. A true original; with his...
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Chick Webb born 10 February 1905
William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb (February 10, 1905*–June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.William Henry Webb (Chick Webb) was born in...
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Josh White born 11 February 1914
Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist. He also recorded under the names Pinewood Tom and Tippy...
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Tennessee Ernie Ford born 13 February 1919
Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991), known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and...
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Lucy Reed born 14 February 1921
Lucy Reed (January 14, 1921 – July 1, 1998) was an American jazz singer, noted on the Chicago jazz scene in the 1950s.Lucy Reed was an appealing but little known jazz vocalist who performed around...
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Patty Andrews born 16 February 1918
Patty Andrews (born February 16, 1918, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.—died January 30, 2013, Los Angeles, California) was an American singer and entertainer best known as part of the Andrews Sisters...
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Dalida born 17 February 1933
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was a Franco-Italian singer and actress who performed and recorded in more than 10 languages including:...
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Little Caesar born 18 February 1928
Little Caesar (February 18, 1928 *– June 12, 1994*) was an African American Blues and R&B singer and actor who is always confused with the entirely different guy who was the lead singer of Little...
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Johnny Dunn born 19 February 1897
Johnny Dunn (February 19, 1897 – August 20, 1937) was an American traditional jazz trumpeter and vaudeville performer.Before Louis Armstrong arrived in New York in 1924, Johnny Dunn was considered the...
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Mervin Shiner born 20 February 1921
Mervin James Shiner (February 20th, 1921 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is a Country singer and guitar player (mostly Honky-Tonk style). Like so many talented country performers, Shiner never got the breaks...
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Val Rosing born 21 February 1910
Valerian Rosing (1910–1969), also known after 1938 as Gilbert Russell, was a British dance band singer who had a light baritone voice, with a pronounced vibrato, best known as the vocalist with the BBC...
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Sterling Bose born 23 February 1906
Sterling Belmont "Bozo" Bose (September 23, 1906, Florence, Alabama - June 1958, St. Petersburg, Florida) was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist and singer. His style was heavily influenced by Bix...
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Patti Wicks born 24 February 1945
Patti Wicks (born Patricia Ellen Chappell; February 24, 1945, Islip, New York – March 7, 2014, West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American jazz singer and pianist who was active in the music scene of New...
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Billy Jack Wills born 26 February 1926
Billy Jack Wills (February 26, 1926 – March 2, 1991) was perhaps one of the most underrated Western swing bandleaders whose Western Swing Band broke new ground for the genre in the early '50s.Born in...
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Maxim Saury born 27 February 1928
Maxim Saury (born February 27, 1928, Enghien-les-Bains - November 15, 2012, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French jazz clarinetist, bandleader and arranger, he is one of the symbols of the " revival "...
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