Famous jazz singer and songwriter Abbey Lincoln died Saturday in New York at age 80. Lincoln has always been known for her phrasing, emotion and uncompromising style.Lincoln had been declining in health for the past year. Her death was confirmed by friend and filmmaker Carol Friedman. Friedman has...
Bruce "The Boss" Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer and songwriter born on September 23, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey. Springsteen was born to Douglas Frederick Springsteen, a bus driver of Irish and Dutch ancestry, and Adele Ann Serilli, a legal secretary of Italian descent....
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
Reese Witherspoon has signed on to play Peggy Lee in Fox 2000's untitled biopic that will chronicle the American jazz singer's life story. The film is being written and directed by Nora Ephron.Witherspoon acquired the rights to Lee's story when she met her granddaughter, Holly Foster-Wells,...
Charlyn Marie Marshall, born on January 21, 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American songwriter and musician best known by her stage names Chan Marshall or Cat Power. As an American singer and songwriter, Marshall has battled depression, addiction, and personal struggles to succeed in recording...
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Holiday was born Elanora Fagan on April 7, 1915. Dubbed "Lady Day" by her musical partner and close friend Lester Young, Holiday combined the blues, gospel, and jazz with steady, distinctive tempo uncustomary of the era. Holiday's music...
Tom Waits, an American singer, songwriter, and actor has a voice made of gravel, mixed with whiskey, and frozen with smoke. Waits mixes blues, jazz, and vaudeville to form his distinct sound bordering "industrial" aesthetics. Waits has worked as a composer for film and plays as well as an actor...
