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Dorival Caymmi: Beloved Brazilian Songwriter
Dorival Caymmi, a revered composer and singer of Brazilian popular song who influenced generations of bossa nova performers and whose first major hit helped launch the Hollywood career of entertainer Carmen Miranda, has died. He was 94. Caymmi died Aug. 16 at his home in Rio de Janeiro. He had kidney cancer and multiple organ failure. ...
Fred Crane Actor Who Wooed Scarlett in 'Gone with the Wind'
He played Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film, Gome With The Wind. Crane later became an announcer on L.A. classical music station KFAC. Fred Crane, a former longtime Los Angeles classical music radio announcer who achieved a slice of film immortality when he played one of the handsome Tarleton twins in the 1939 movie classic Gone ...
Sam Moore Reflects on Isaac Hayes, Jerry Wexler and a Life in Soul
Last week was a terrible blow to anybody invested in the soul and R&B music of the late '60s. Between the deaths of Isaac Hayes and Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler, it seemed as if one of the greatest eras in American pop music began to fade. Sam Moore (above, left, with Hayes), one half of ...
Dorival Caymmi Singer of Brazil Dies at 94
Dorival Caymmi, a Brazilian singer and songwriter who helped lay the foundations of bossa nova, wrote Carmen Miranda's first hit and gave legendary voice to the romance of the beaches, fishing villages and bathing beauties of his native Bahia, died on Saturday at his home in Rio de Janeiro. He was 94. Dorival Caymmi helped lay ...
Ronnie Drew Irish Folk Singer Founded the Dubliners Dies
Ronnie Drew, the gravelly voiced folk singer and guitarist who founded the Irish group the Dubliners and also sang with the Pogues and other rock bands, died on Saturday in Dublin. He was 73. Mr. Drew, who had throat cancer, died in St. Vincent's Private Hospital, his family said in a statement. Known for his distinctive ...
Leroi Moore: 1961-2008
LeRoi Moore: 1961 - 2008 LeRoi Moore We are sorry to report that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently ...
Pervis Jackson Bass Singer for the Spinners Passes
Pervis Jackson, 70, the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by The Spinners, died Monday morning at Detroit Sinai-Grace Hospital after being diagnosed last week with brain and liver cancer after feeling ill for several weeks, said his wife, Claudreen Jackson. Joe B. Jordan native of the New ...
Leroi Moore, 46; Saxophone Player in Dave Matthews Band
LeRoi Moore, a saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle in June. He was 46. Moore, born in 1961, died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, the band said on its website. LeRoi MooreHe was initially hospitalized in late June after the ...
Sax Player LeRoi Moore Dies at 46 from ATV Wreck Injuries
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46. Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was admitted ...
Jamaican Trumpeter of The Skatalites: Johnny Moore Passes
Johnny Moore, 70, a trumpeter and founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae band The Skatalites, died Saturday of cancer in Kingston, Jamaica, according to music promoter Herbie Miller. Moore helped form the band in 1964 along with saxophonists Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso and trombonist Don Drummond. “He was the most creative of ...
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