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was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer.
His life and music were depicted in the Academy Award-winning film Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) |
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John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
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was an American talent scout, recording engineer and record producer in the field of music in the 1920s and 1930s.
Country music "founder" |
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| was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys, |
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| was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer. While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is probably best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time. |
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| is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film.best-known artist working in musical theatre",[2] his most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy. |
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| was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. worked on were On the Town, Peter Pan, High Button Shoes, The King And I, The Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing, West Side Story, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, and Fiddler on the Roof. |
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| was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. but the tremendous success of West Side Story remained unequaled by his other compositions. |
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| was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs. |
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| were a well-known American songwriting duo, , Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, |
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| Several of his songs, notably "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "You Must Love Me" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and "Memory" from Cats have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals. |
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| was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter (usually as Ellas McDaniel), and inventor. The Originator" |
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| (born November 28, 1929) is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label, as well as its many subsidiaries. |
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| better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950 |
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| In August 1953, Presley walked into the offices of Sun Records |
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| also known as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtõ ʒoˈbĩ]), was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally. |
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