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June Richmond born 9 July 1915
June Richmond (July 9, 1915 – August 14, 1962) is best remembered today as the first African-American performer to sing with an all-white band. A blues vocalist in her early years, Richmond later...
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Ivie Anderson born 10 July 1905
Ivie Anderson (sometimes Ivy) (January 16, 1904 – December 28, 1949) was an American jazz singer. Anderson was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra for more than a decade. Anderson was born on...
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Julie Grant born 12 July 1948
Julie Grant (born 12 July 1946) is an English pop music singer, who was mainly active during the 1960s.She was born Vivien Foreman on 12 July 1946 in the northern English coastal town of Blackpool,...
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Diane Renay born 13 July 1945
Diane Renay (born July 13, 1945), born Renee Diane Kushner, is an American pop singer, best known for her 1964 hit song, "Navy Blue". One of the best teen singers of her era, Renee Diane Kushner was an...
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Lowman Pauling born 14 July 1926
Lowman Pauling, born Lowman Pete Pauling, Jr. (14 July 1926 – 26 December 1973) was one of the founder members and guitarist of the rhythm and blues vocal group the 5 Royales from Winston-Salem, North...
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Paulo Moura born 15 July 1932
Paulo Moura (15 July 1932 – 12 July 2010) was one of Brazil's best-loved instrumentalists. A Grammy award-winning clarinettist, saxophonist and composer, he blurred the lines between classical and...
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Buddy Merrill born 16 July 1936
Buddy Merrill (born July 16, 1936), born Leslie Merrill Behunin, Jr., is an American guitar player and steel guitar player, best known as a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show. He has recorded over 25...
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Peppermint Harris born 17 July 1925
Harrison Demotra Nelson, Jr. (July 17, 1925 – March 19, 1999), known as Peppermint Harris, was an American rhythm and blues and jump blues singer and guitarist. Peppermint Harris was best-known for his...
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Barbara Harris born 18 July 1945
Barbara Harris (born 18th August 1945) is better known as one of the founder members and lead singer of The Toys. Barbara Harris, Barbara Parritt (both originally from North Carolina), and June...
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Karen Dalton born 19 July 1937
Karen J. Dalton (July 19, 1937 – March 19, 1993) was an American folk blues singer, guitarist, and banjo player. She was associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly...
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Jo Ann Campbell born 20 July 1938
Jo Ann Campbell (born July 20, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American pop singer. Campbell took music and dance lessons as a child, and was drum majorette at Fletcher High School in...
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Kaye Stevens born 21 July 1932
Kaye Stevens (July 21, 1932 – December 28, 2011) also known as Kay Stevens, was an American singer and actress remembered for her career on television and for headlining in Las Vegas top...
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Thomas Wayne born 22 July 1940
Thomas Wayne (July 22, 1940 - August 15, 1971) was an American singer. He is best remembered as a one-hit wonder for "Tragedy". He was born Thomas Wayne Perkins in Batesville, Mississippi and was the...
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Steve Lacy born 23 July 1934
Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. His discography lists well over a hundred...
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Billy Taylor born 24 July 1921
Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. Taylor appeared on hundreds of albums and composed more than 300 songs during his...
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Denis King born 25 July 1939
Denis Andrew King (born 25 July 1939) is an English composer and singer. He is best remembered as a member of a family ensemble, The King Brothers. King was born in Hornchurch, Essex. He began his...
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Joanne Brackeen born 26 July
Joanne Brackeen (born July 26, 1938) is an American jazz pianist and Berklee Piano Professor and music educator. She has been called the "Picasso of jazz piano," a nickname that encompasses her...
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Einar Iversen born 27 July 1930
Einar "Pastor'n" Iversen (27 July 1930 – 3 April 2019) was a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer and the son of a "pastor." He went into jazz after World War II ended. Through more than sixty years, he...
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Vinnie Bell born 28 July 1932
Vincent Edward Gambella (July 28, 1932 – October 3, 2019), known as Vinnie Bell, was an American session guitarist, and pioneer of electronic effects in pop music. He was the inventor of the electric...
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Charlie Christian born 29 July 1916
Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist. It can be said without exaggeration that virtually every jazz guitarist that emerged during 1940-65...
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