Growing list of those born or died on March 17 in any year
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor.
Cole began his career as a jazz pianist
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Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mor%C3%A9
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Olivia Theresa Longott (born February 15, 1981) is an American R&B singer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_(singer)
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investor, and music publisher. He wrote over 2000 songs and arranged for notable people such as Florenz Ziegfeld, Orson Welles, Louis Armstrong, Eddie Duchin, Benny Goodman, and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jordan_(musician)
Whitney Houston died 14 years ago today.
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[british] Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
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William Omar Landrón Rivera (born February 10, 1978)
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and officers handcuffed him at a Hoyt Street address [in 2017].
https://www.btpm.org/crime/2017-12-14/lack-of-criminal-charges-in-wardel-davis-death-leads-to-protest-of-buffalo-police
Eva María Angélica Ayllón Urbina (born February 7, 1956), is a female composer and singer, one of Peru's foremost Afro-Peruvian
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Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was [a Black] American gospel singer. With a career spanning 40 years, Jackson was integral to the development and spread of gospel blues in [Black] churches throughout the U.S.
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TB a Black King shared the text and video below.
😱 🙏🏾👏🏾It doesn't make any sense how he can do this with his voice. They sound Amazing and this brother is BAD. I love my people
Video source: @TheyHaveTheRange
Song: "Even Me"
constructed a type of crude but working and properly tuned harpsichord out of junk in his back yard, since his family lacked the money to buy or rent a piano. On this contraption young Tony was able to reproduce hymns he heard in church;
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Overton Vertis Wright (October 9, 1939 – November 16, 1980) was an American singer who is generally regarded as a blues artist by African-American fans in the Deep South; he is also regarded as one of Southern soul's most authoritative and individual artists.
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
