Jules Bledsoe was born in 1897 and died in 1943. Jules Bledsoe was a American baritone and one of the first African Americans to gain poularity on Broadway. Jules Bledsoe was born Jules Lorenzo Cobb Bledsoe in Waco, Texas. When his parents split he went and lived with his mother. Throughout all the years he went to school he went to college and studied medicine and also secretly studied music. Jules Bledsoe made his famous professional deput in New Yorks Aerolian Hall in 1924. Most of his career he traveled around America and Europe performing, acting, and writing. He made alot of money and got really famous from touring around America and Europe. Jules Bledsoe was mostly known as a great singer. He was always wanted in operas due to his
He became famous because of the standard oil advertisements and because of when he was in the war they knew he did cartooning and they had him do some propaganda for the war
When he went with his brother to France he performed with an avant-garde musical theater group known as Le Grand Magic Circus. He then decided to travel through Ghana, Mali, and Upper Volta in Africa experiencing new musical styles that would influence his own style. While in Africa he contracted malaria. When he finally returned to the United States he began studying at CalArts even though he was not really a student there.
On January 12 1998 in Georgia, Deputy Kyle Dinkheller made a traffic stop for speeding car driving at 98 mphs. Placed inside his car was a dashboard camera, the incident was all captured. The video showed Brannan purposely provoking the deputy while Dinkheller continued to get him to “calm down” and arrest him. After 30 seconds of taunting Brannan puts his hands in his walking while backing towards his vehicle. At that point Dinkheller drew his weapon while Brannan once again started taunting Dinkheller saying, “Here I am, shoot
Danny Clark was an American soldier that fought in a war some time ago. It all began when he need money to live a good life. So he enlisted to the military and he was sent to battle right away.
Charles Mingus was born in Arizona in 1922 to a biracial father and white mother. His biracial father did not promote pride in their African American heritage, so Mingus grew up faced with many racist attitudes and often was unsure of where exactly, in society, he belonged because of his mixed race heritage (Dunkel 17).
The story begins in Key West, Florida where Theodore "Fats" Navarro was born of mixed Cuban-Black-Chinese parentage on September 24, 1923. His musical training began early with piano lessons at age six, but he did not start taking music seriously until he took up the trumpet at age thirteen. He became good during his high school years. He also played tenor saxophone and played briefly with Walter Johnson's band in Miami. Apparently Fats did not care much for Key West. He was once quoted as saying "I didn't like Key West at all. I'll never go back." So, after graduating high school, he joined Sol Allbrights's band in Orlando, so Fats traveled with him to Cincinnati, and took further trumpet lessons from an Ohio teacher. He then went on the road with Snookum Russell's Indianapolis orchestra. Russell's group, a band well known in the area in the 1940s, proved to be very good for Fats. It was a place where he developed, experimented, and made mistakes that no one would remember before heading on to the national stage. Fats stayed with Russell for about two years (1941-42) and became their trumpet soloist. Fats worked next with Andy Kirk and his Kansas City "Clouds of Joy." Here he made a friendship with trumpeter Howard McGhee.
Another artist who was tremendously influential during this era was Joan Baez. She produced folk music which happened to be very popular during this time period. She is also famous for popularizing the work of Bob Dylan. She was born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York. She became interested in the folk genre of music two yea...
the world. Gershwin , at the young age of fifteen, quit school and became a song plugger.
“The chief of police got my brother killed. He don’t care. He shows no emotion at all.” – Stevante Clark. On the evening of March 18th 2018 in Sacramento, California, a 22 year-old unarmed African American man Stephon Clark, who was a loving father of two sons was shot and killed in his own backyard by two Sacramento Police officers, one black and one white. Which reignited the national debate on race and policing in the United States.
On April 26, 1921, the saying "April showers bring May flowers" was proved incorrect. On this day, Simon Herbers was born in the midst of a snow storm - needless to say, there were no May-flowers. He was a living miracle and the miraculous story of his life still continues today at the age of ninety-five.
A local leader that I respect more than anyone else in my town is Perth Amboy Public Schools Administrator Edwin Nieves. Edwin Nieves is an educator and a leader who has worked his way up to where he stands now. He served the United States Army, where he learned about discipline, respect, honor, integrity, courage and service. At one point, he was my 5th grade teacher and when I was in high school, he was my school principal. During those years as my educator, a mentor and a friend, Nieves was able to motivate me to always follow my dreams and he said to me, “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. Nieves one of those people who works in silent, for his people and never for his personal interest. His accomplishments are everyone’s
explored the genre in his 1902 Le Voyage Dans La Lune. While even as early an
Even though he was a great popular singer , he was well respected as a jazz singer . The
Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams, born March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi, the second of Cornelius and Edwina Williams' three children. Raised predominantly by his mother, Williams had a complicated relationship with his father, a demanding salesman who preferred work instead of parenting. Because his father was a traveling salesman and was often away from home, he lived the first
famous for everything he wrote. “I’ll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I’ll be famous...