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Professional ratings. The Unimaginable Life is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins, released on July 8, 1997, to coincide with his book of the same name that he co-wrote with his second wife, Julia. The liner notes include excerpts from the book.
- 1997
- Soft rock
- July 8, 1997
Album. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 CD release of "The Unimaginable Life" on Discogs.
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8. Juli 1997 · The Unimaginable Life. Columbia: G0100009140275. Buy download online. Kenny Loggins, Poem Written and Read by Julia Loggins/Music by Steve Wood, Everette Harp (saxophone), Freddie Washington (bass), Nathan East (bass), Dan Shea (keyboards), Greg Phillingaines (keyboards), Steve George (keyboards), Dan Shea (programmer), Randy Jackson ...
Ready" Freddie Washington is an American session bassist who has played with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Al Jarreau, Aaron Neville, Lionel Richie, Anita Baker, B.B. King, Elton John, Patrice Rushen, Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston, Donald Fagen, The Crusaders, George Benson, Deniece Williams, Johnny Mathis, Burt Bacharach, Kenny Loggins and Steely Dan.
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Fredi Washington was born in 1903 in Savannah, Georgia, to Robert T. Washington, a postal worker, and Harriet "Hattie" Walker Ward, a dancer. Both were of African American and European ancestry. Washington was the second of their five children. Her mother died when Fredi was 11 years old. As the oldest girl in her family, she helped raise her young...
Early entertainment career
Washington's entertainment career began in 1921 as a chorus girl in the Broadway musical Shuffle Along. She was hired by dancer Josephine Baker as a member of the "Happy Honeysuckles," a cabaret group. Baker became a friend and mentor to her. Washington's collaboration with Baker led to her being discovered by producer Lee Shubert. In 1926, she was recommended for a co-starring role on the Broadway stage with Paul Robeson in the play Black Boy.She quickly became a popular, featured dancer, an...
Washington's experiences in the film industry and theater led her to become a civil rights activist. In an effort to help other Black actors and actresses find more opportunities, in 1937 Washington co-founded the Negro Actors Guild of America (NAG), with Noble Sissle, W. C. Handy, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters. The organization's mission included...
Washington played opposite Bill Robinson in Fox's One Mile from Heaven (1937), in which she played a light-skinned woman claiming to be the mother of a "white" baby. Claire Trevor plays a reporter who discovers the story and helps both Washington and the white biological mother who had given up the baby, played by Sally Blane. According to the Muse...
In 1933, Washington married Lawrence Brown, the trombonist in Duke Ellington's jazz orchestra. That marriage ended in divorce. In 1952, Washington married a Stamford dentist, Hugh Anthony Bell, and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut. She was a devout Catholic.
Fredi Washington Bell died, aged 90, on June 28, 1994. She died from pneumonia following a series of strokesat St. Joseph Medical Center in Stamford, Connecticut.
In 1975, Washington was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.In 1979, Washington received the CIRCA Award for lifetime achievement in the performing arts.In 1981, Washington received an award from the Audience Development Company (AUDELCO), a New York-based nonprofit group devoted to preserving and promoting African-American theater.Fredi Washington at IMDbFredi Washington at the Internet Broadway DatabaseThe People's Voice Research and Editorial Files (1865-1963) are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.Erin Blakemore, "The Fair-Skinned Black Actress Who Refused to 'Pass' in 1930s Hollywood", History, January 26, 2021.1. Nov. 2023 · Forget Me Nots went on to fuel Rushen’s 1982 breakout album, Straight From The Heart, which reached #23 on the pop charts and #4 on the R&B list.“Freddie’s bassline doesn’t require a lot; the whole track is driven by the bass guitar and the groove of the rest of the rhythm section,” Rushen said in her liner notes.
2. Juli 2018 · Fredi Washington and Her Defining Role in Imitation of Life. The Fredi Washington papers at the Amistad Research Center highlights the life of the African American actress, dancer, and activist known for her stage and screen rolls from the 1920-1940s.
