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Jane Powell born 1 April 1929
Jane Powell (born Suzanne Lorraine Burce; April 1, 1929) is an American singer, dancer and actress who rose to fame in the mid-1940s with roles in various Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals.Jane Powell...
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Frank Holder born 2 April 1925
Frank Holder (2 April 1925 – 29 October 2017) was a Guyanese jazz singer and percussionist who is regarded as one of the leading black UK jazz musicians to emerge from the mid-1940s' swing dance band...
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Catherine Spaak born 3 April 1945
Catherine Spaak (born 3 April 1945) is a French-Italian actress and singer.She was born Catherine Spaak in Boulogne-Billancourt, a western suburb of Paris, on 3 April 1945. Her father was the Belgian...
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Anthony Perkins born 4 April 1932
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor and singer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956),...
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Joe Meek born 5 April 1929
Robert George "Joe" Meek (5 April 1929 – 3 February 1967) was an English record producer, musician, sound engineer and songwriter who pioneered space age and experimental pop music and is considered...
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Big Walter Horton
Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter (Horton) or Walter "Shakey" Horton (April 6, 1921 – December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player. A quiet, unassuming, shy man, he is remembered as...
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Don Julian born 7 April 1937
Don Julian (April 7, 1937 – November 6, 1998) was an American rhythm and blues, funk and soul singer, guitarist and songwriter. Most famous for his work as an R&B singer in the 1950s and 1960s,...
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Paul Robeson born 9 April 1898
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898–January 23, 1976) was an Afro-American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profondo...
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Archie Lewis born 10 April 1918
Archie Lewis (10 April 1918– 29 February 1988) was a Jamaican singer and variety artist who was popular in Britain in the 1940s. He was a sadly neglected singer who deserves to be re-instated as one of...
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Ian Armit born 11 April
Ian Armit* (11 April 1929 – 19 February 1992) was a British blues, jazz pianist and composer.Ian was born in Kirckaldy, Fife, Scotland. Information about his early life is scarce, but in 1957 we find...
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Shakey Jake Harris born 12 April 1920
Shakey Jake Harris* (April 12, 1921 – March 2, 1990) was an American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter. He released five albums over a period of almost 25 years. He knew how to shake a...
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Frank Emilio Flynn born 13 April 1921
Francisco Emilio Flynn Rodríguez (April 13, 1921 – August 23, 2001), better known as Frank Emilio Flynn, was a renowned Cuban pianist. Despite being blind, he was a skilled and versatile pianist who...
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Shorty Rogers born 14 April 1924
Milton "Shorty" Rogers (April 14, 1924 – November 7, 1994) was a trumpeter, bandleader and arranger and a principal creators of West Coast jazz He was also one of the earliest jazz musicians to use...
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Eden Ahbez born 15 April 1908
Eden Ahbez (born George Alexander Aberle; April 15, 1908 – March 4, 1995) was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie...
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Ed Townsend born 16 April 1929
Edward Benjamin 'Ed' Townsend (April 16, 1929 – August 13, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, producer and attorney. During a 50-year career he composed more than 200 songs. In his lifetime he...
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Bill Ramsey born 17 April 1931
Bill Ramsey (William McCreery Ramsey, born April 17, 1931 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a German-American jazz and pop singer, journalist and actor famous for his German-language hits.William McGreery...
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Tony Mottola born 18 April 1918
Tony Mottola (April 18, 1918 – August 9, 2004) was an Emmy –winning American composer and guitarist who released dozens of solo albums. He had a long and varied career, centered in New York, where he...
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Rose Marie McCoy born 19 April 1921
Rose Marie McCoy (April 19, 1922 – January 20, 2015) was an American songwriter. She began her career as an aspiring singer before becoming a prolific songwriter during the 1950s and 1960s. Many...
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Bert Bales born 20 April 1917
Burt Bales (April 20, 1917 – October 26, 1989) was an American jazz stride and ragtime pianist. Not well known outside San Francisco, classic jazz pianist Burt Bales was among the best ever heard on...
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Mundell Lowe born 21 April 1922
James Mundell Lowe (April 21, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a musician who was on many sessions through the years...
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