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Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935 Lexington, KY) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004 Albany, GA)  was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as “The Genius”. Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called “Brother Ray”.Charles…

John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967 Hamlet, NC) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Coltrane’s spiritual journey was interwoven with his investigation of world music. He believed in not only a universal…

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William Overton Smith (September 22, 1926 – February 29, 2020 Sacramento, CA was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, third stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck intermittently from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Smith frequently recorded jazz under the…

  Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye MFR(born 22 September 1946), known professionally as King Sunny Adé, is a Nigerian jùjú singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is regarded as one of the first African popmusicians to gain international success, and has been called one of the most influential musicians of all time.

Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi (22 September 1952 – 23 January 2019) was a Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Southern Africa Region.

The core of the Tangos is the letra, three or four octosyllabic lines. As with the Bulerías, the  the first line is often repeated, and the repeated lines are balanced by a longer consequent phrase. Before a letra a Tangos may open with a guitar falseta or an estribillo, in which the singer sings a…