by MikellRobert | Sep 25, 2018 | African American History, People
Frank Ocean is a singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer and photographer. He was born Christopher Edwin Breaux on October 28, 1987 in Long Beach, California. His parents, Calvin Edward Cooksey and Katonya Breaux, moved the family to New Orleans, Louisiana when he...
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by SadowskiJeremy | Nov 5, 2013 | African American History, People
Willie Dixon was a pioneering Chicago blues musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, producer, and philanthropist. He was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1915 to Anderson Bell and Daisy Dixon, was married to Marie Booker, and had 12 children (five with wife...
by VictoriaBishop | Aug 27, 2010 | African American History, People
Carmen McRae, a jazz singer and songwriter, was born on April 8, 1920, in Harlem, New York. Her father, Osmond Llewelyn McRae, was born in Santa Cruz, Jamaica, in 1891; he moved from Jamaica to Costa Rica to Cuba and then to New York City, where Carmen was born to...
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