* 1888 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer ( d. 1972 )

* September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor ( d. 1972 )

Maurice Auguste Chevalier ( September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972 ) was a French actor, singer, entertainer and a noted Sprechgesang performer.

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

Among those in attendance were Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev, Pablo Picasso, filmmaker René Clair, singer Jane Bathori, and Maurice Chevalier.

These plots often featured Guy Caballero ( Joe Flaherty ), the cheap, tyrannical owner and president of SCTV, who was in a wheelchair only so that people would " respect " him ; weaselly, sweating station manager Maurice " Moe " Green ( Harold Ramis ), who was succeeded by flamboyant, leopard-skin clad station manager Mrs. Edith Prickley ( Andrea Martin ); vain variety star Johnny La Rue ( John Candy ); washed-up entertainers like singer Lola Heatherton ( Catherine O ' Hara ) and " funnyman " Bobby Bittman ( Eugene Levy ); news anchors Floyd Robertson ( Flaherty ) and Earl Camembert ( Levy ), talk-show host Sammy Maudlin ( Flaherty ), beer-addled brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie ( Moranis and Thomas ), plus many other characters, all played by the SCTV cast.

Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE ( 22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012 ) was a singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry.

Additionally, in 1975 Maurice established a production company called Kalimba Productions to which he signed artists such as his former bandleader Ramsey Lewis, singer Deniece Williams ( a former member of Stevie Wonder's Wonderlove backup group ) and girl group The Emotions, who had a run of hits with Stax Records from 1969 to 1974.

* September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor ( d. 1972 )

Bériot lived together with the opera singer Maria Malibran and had a child with her in 1833 ( Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, a piano professor who taught Maurice Ravel, Ricardo Viñes, Enrique Granados and others ).

He attended Booker T. Washington High School, the alma mater of Rufus Thomas and shared the hallowed halls with future stars like Isaac Hayes's writing partner David Porter ; saxophonist Andrew Love of The Memphis Horns ; soul singer / songwriter William Bell and Earth, Wind, & Fire's Maurice White.

Woodward Maurice Ritter ( January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974 ), better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting ( son John and grandson Jason ).

Actor and singer Maurice Chevalier came out of retirement to sing this song for the motion picture's soundtrack, convinced by a demo version where Richard Sherman imitated him.

In 1969 the singer Lulu married Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in the church.

Christian Vander is the stepson of the famous French jazz piano player Maurice Vander ( who was a long time sideman of the French singer Claude Nougaro ).

Jeanette Anna MacDonald ( June 18, 1903January 14, 1965 ) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier ( Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow ) and Nelson Eddy ( Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime ).

Patrick Bruel ( ; born Maurice Benguigui, on May 14, 1959 in Tlemcen, then French Algeria ) is a French singer, actor, and professional poker player of berber Jewish descent.

The nightclub's regulars each stop by: singer Jane Avril teases Henri charmingly, dancers La Goulue and Aicha fight, and owner Maurice Joyant offers Henri free drinks for a month in exchange for painting a promotional poster.

Lake Lure celebrated its Dirty Dancing legacy in the 1980's with the Dirty Dancing Revue featuring the A-Lure Dancers, legendary soul singer Maurice Williams who is best remembered for his Dirty Dancing hit " Stay ", and Billy Scott and the Party Prophets.

* Maurice Pearson, singer ( 1957 – 1960 )

A number of well known New Zealand musicians, artists, writers and potters currently live or have lived in the area, including singer / songwriter Tim Finn ( who wrote the song " I Hope I Never " there ), actress Alma Evans-Freake, author Maurice Shadbolt, painters Colin McCahon ( whose house is preserved as a museum ) and Bibi Asgher, photographers Brian Brake and Peter Evans, poet John Caselberg and potter Len Castle.

The publisher, Maurice Decruck, denied her request, however, because a singer had exclusive rights to a song for a six-month period.

* Maurice Hines ( born 1943 ), U. S. actor, director, jazz singer and choreographer

Kruschen appeared as Maurice Pulvermacher in the original 1962 Broadway production of I Can Get It for You Wholesale with neophyte singer / actress, 19-year old Barbra Streisand.

** Andy Gibb, British singer ( b. 1958 )

In late 2004, Gibb embarked a solo tour of Germany, Russia and Asia with singer Alistair Griffin as the opening act.

In 2010, Gibb was also a guest mentor on the Australian version of The X Factor, alongside TV host Kyle Sandilands, actress / singer Natalie Imbruglia, and singers Ronan Keating and Guy Sebastian.

Gibb was married to the Scottish pop singer Lulu from 1969 to 1973.

Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE ( born 1 September 1946 ) is a musician, singer and songwriter and producer, who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Bee Gees.

* Andy Gibb, singer

The Prebendal House has been the home to singer / songwriter Robin Gibb and his wife Dwina since 1984.

Over the six-year run, a number of celebrities appeared on the show, including singer Whitney Houston, Andy Gibb, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Ray Parker, Jr ..

Her famous amours included country singer Merle Haggard ( who was 21 years her senior ), actor Don Johnson, the late pop singer Andy Gibb, and, most notably, country / pop star Glen Campbell, with whom she had a very stormy relationship and a minor hit duet, " Dream Lover.

Since the late 1970s, she has had relationships with a string of fellow entertainers, including country singer Merle Haggard, actor Don Johnson and the late pop singer Andy Gibb.

During this time, Gibb promoted Party Party with the singer and guitarist John Strike, playing two tours of Germany, after which Gibb disbanded his new act.

His last radio newscast included a report of the death of singer Andy Gibb.

Miss Pons is certainly not 70 -- no singer ever is -- and yet the rewards of the evening again lay more in paying tribute to a great figure of times gone by than in present accomplishments.

It is no common thing for a listener ( critical or otherwise ) to hear a singer `` live '' for the first time only after he has died.

Souad Massi is a becoming famous Algerian singer of traditional songs.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.

* The story of Absalom is referred to several places in folk singer Adam Arcuragi's song " Always Almost Crying.

Ani DiFranco (; born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970 ) is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter.

Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (; born 11 October 1961 ) is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music ; he is the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music.

The difficulty is heightened when songs merge, as in " Now "/" Later "/" Soon ", because all three have to be performed in the same key, limiting the ability to pick a comfortable key for each singer.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (; ; born 28 September 1934 ) is a former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist.

Some feel that this is echoed in Habakkuk 3: 19b, and that Habakkuk may have been a Levite and singer in the Temple.

The voice is produced by castration of the singer before puberty, or it occurs in one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.

In Constantinople around 400 AD the empress Aelia Eudoxia had a eunuch choir-master, Brison, who may have established the use of castrati in Byzantine choirs, though whether Brison himself was a singer, and whether he had colleagues who were eunuch singers, is not certain.

Some nationwide celebrities might command some attention outside their own nation ; for example, the singer Lara Fabian is widely known in the French-speaking world, but only had a couple of Billboard hits in the U. S., whereas the francophone Canadian singer Celine Dion is well known in both the French-speaking world and in the U. S.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

The Chula is a song where the singer part is much bigger than the chorus response, usually eight singer verses for one chorus response, but the proportion may vary.