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30. Mai 2014 · Herb Jeffries was born Herbert Jeffrey in Detroit, Michigan in 1913. His father, Umberto Balentino, was a pianist of African-American and Sicilian descent. Jeffries’s mother was of Irish descent. And somewhere in his heritage, there are said to be links to Ethiopian and French Canadian forebears.
- Bob Perkins
In 1995, at age 81, he recorded The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again), a Nashville album of songs on the Warner Western label. Film career. Touring the Deep South with Hines, Jeffries was struck by the realities of segregation, as the Orchestra's playing was restricted to tobacco warehouses and black-only movie theatres.
Remembering “Bronze Buckaroo” Herb Jeffries, the First Star of Black Western Musicals. 4 minute read. By Richard Corliss. May 26, 2014 7:17 PM EDT. A mong Western stars of the late 1930s,...
26. Mai 2014 · May 26, 2014. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable...
1. Mai 2023 · Herb Jeffries was the Bronze Buckaroo, star of five all-Black-cast singing-cowboy movies in the 1930s and ’40s. His sweet, rich baritone fronted Duke Ellington’s orchestra in the 1941 megahit “Flamingo” and countless other tunes and set women’s hearts a-fluttering. He crooned with every major orchestra in the big-band era ...
11. Nov. 2014 · Herb Jeffries, baritone jazz balladeer and first black singing cowboy in the movies, was born Umberto Alexander Valentino on September 24, 1913 in Detroit, Michigan, to a mixed-race father and an Irish -born mother. His mother operated a boarding house and raised her son alone. His grandfather had a small dairy farm in Port Huron, Michigan ...
31. Mai 2014 · Herb Jeffries sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as "the Bronze Buckaroo" - a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity. He used to say, "I’m a chameleon" - and the label applied on many levels. Herb Jeffries in 2004.
