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Ruth Alston Weston, conocida como Ruth Brown (Portsmouth, Virginia, 30 de enero de 1928-Henderson, Nevada, 17 de noviembre de 2006), fue una cantante estadounidense de R&B. Introdujo en el rhythm and blues un estilo de música popular a través de una serie de canciones de éxito grabadas en los años 50 para el sello discográfico Atlantic Records , fundado poco antes.
Ruth Brown, the R&B pioneer, had reinvented herself as an actress and a singer who escaped classification. In 1987 Brown starred in Allen Toussaint's off-Broadway musical Staggerlee; in 1989she won a Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for the Broadway revue Black and Blue. She appeared in the John Waters film Hairspray, became a popular host of National Public Radio and went on to win a 1990 ...
20. Nov. 2006 · Ruth Brown, the vivacious R&B singer whose early hits established Atlantic Records, has died of complications following a stroke and a heart attack in Henderson, Nev. She was 78.
24. März 2023 · Ruth Brown, également connue sous le surnom de «Miss Rhythm», était une chanteuse américaine de rhythm and blues qui a connu un grand succès dans les années 1950. Elle a été l’une des premières artistes à enregistrer pour le label Atlantic Records et a aidé à populariser le genre musical du rhythm and blues.
18. Nov. 2006 · Ruth Brown, the gutsy rhythm and blues singer whose career extended to acting and crusading for musicians' rights, died yesterday in Las Vegas. She was 78 and lived in Las Vegas. She was 78 and ...
Ruth Brown was probably the second most popular female R&B singer of the early and mid 1950s (right behind Dinah Washington). Her magnificent voice could "sell" a song (sometimes in spite of the song itself), and, with the greatest number of singles issued by a female singer on the Atlantic label, she made trip after trip to the R&B charts. In fact, Atlantic Records was sometimes referred to ...
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