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Herb Jeffries, né Umberto Alexander Valentino le 24 septembre 1913 et mort le 25 mai 2014, est un acteur de cinéma et de télévision et chanteur américain. Il est auteur-compositeur-interprète de jazz et de musique populaire, connu pour sa voix de baryton . Au cours de sa carrière d'acteur, il utilisait généralement les noms de Herbert ...
"Now I'm onstage. Duke is furious. He says, `What are you trying to do --an Al Jolson?' I tried to explain. But Duke stormed out and had a little talk with the producers. I never darkened up again." Worked for two peerless leaders This distinction is owned by Herb Jeffries: He sang with Duke Ellington and with Earl "Fatha" Hines, two peerless ...
26. Mai 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the Swing Era and made movie history in the 1930s as "The Bronze Buckaroo," the silver screen's first black singing cowboy, has died.
14. Juli 2017 · Then came along Herb Jeffries – born and raised in Detroit, he followed in his father's musical footsteps and pursued a singing career until he eventually broke into film in 1937. Having grown up himself in a mixed race family, in a racially tolerant neighborhood, he was shocked by the segregation he saw while touring the country. After seeing how many black kids flocked to go see all-white ...
27. Mai 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the "Bronze Buckaroo" in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns, died of heart failure Sunday morning at a ...
13. Juli 2014 · Herb Jeffries was a singer who rode the silver screen as the 'Bronze Buckaroo’ and delivered a rich baritone for Duke Ellington. ... Herb Jeffries (second left) and Artie Young (centre) with the ...
Actor Herbert Jeffries and actress Artie Young with the cast of the African-American made movie 'The Bronze Buckaroo', 1939. Singer Herb Jeffries in a movie still from the Allied Artists film 'Calypso Joe'. Composer Duke Ellington and his orchestra perfor ...
