* 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer ( d. 1984 )

* 1896 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress ( d. 1977 )

* February 15 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress ( b. 1908 )

* October 31 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress ( d. 1977 )

Ethel Merman ( January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984 ) was an American actress and singer.

The area has been visited by actor Alan Alda, Sen. Jacob Javits, Sen. Robert Kennedy, singer Ethel Merman, actor Donald O ' Connor, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

Originally set in an apartment building in New York City, I Love Lucy centers on Lucy Ricardo ( Lucille Ball ) and her singer / bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo ( Desi Arnaz ), along with their best friends and landlords Fred Mertz ( William Frawley ) and Ethel Mertz ( Vivian Vance ).

* Ethel Azama ; Jazz singer.

* Ethel Waters, actress and singer

* Trixie Smith, blues singer, second only to Ethel Waters in Black Swan sales.

* Ethel Waters, blues and pop song singer.

Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, ( August 25, 1910 – February 28, 1993 ) was an actress, dancer and singer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street ( 1933 ).

In 1937, Byas moved to New York to work with the Eddie Mallory band, accompanying Mallory ’ s wife, the singer Ethel Waters, on tour, and at the Cotton Club.

They include Leslie Uggams thinking lemonade was hot cocoa, singer Anne Murray and a magic eggnog container, Oscar adopting a kitten with a broken leg who was never seen again on the television series ( which is out of character for Oscar, even on Christmas ), and Ethel Merman calling Imogene Coca an idiot.

Tucker remained a popular singer through the 1920s, and hired stars such as Mamie Smith and Ethel Waters to give her lessons.

The latter recording led the jazz and gospel singer Ethel Waters to say that " Tormé is the only white man who sings with the soul of a black man.

The couple had three children: actress / singer Ethel Barrymore Colt ( 1912 – 1977 ), who appeared on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's Follies ; Samuel Colt ( 1909 – 1986 ); and John Drew Colt ( 1913 – 1975 ).

Lewis ' grandmother Dame Ethel Gomer-Lewis was an opera singer.

* Ethel Merman ( 1908 – 1984 ), American actress and singer

Ethel Shutta ( pronounced " shoo-tay ") ( December 1, 1896 — February 5, 1976 ) was an American actress and singer, who came to prominence through her performances on Jack Benny's radio show, her role in the early Eddie Cantor musical Whoopee !, and her Broadway comeback in Follies at the age of 74.

* Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, birth name of Ethel Merman ( 1908 – 1984 ), German American singer and actress

* Lady Ethel Maud Ashley-Cooper ( 1870 – 1945 ), married Sir George Warrender-she was known as Lady Maud Warrender, a singer and patron of music, and a personal friend of the composer Edward Elgar and his wife

In another episode, The French Revue Fred and Ethel perform an Apache dance in the hopes of starring in an act at the club with a French singer.

Merman was hired as a torch singer at Les Ambassadeurs, where the headliner was Jimmy Durante, and the two became lifelong friends.

* January 16-Ethel Merman, actress, singer ( died 1984 )

Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.

" Folk singer Judy Collins, who knew the song before she could remember learning it, witnessed Fannie Lou Hamer leading marchers in Mississippi in 1964, singing " Amazing Grace ".

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

Jimmy Page reportedly found out about a new singer, Robert Plant, who had been jamming with Korner, who wondered why Plant had not yet been discovered.

In February 1684 he became Maestro di Cappella to the viceroy of Naples, perhaps through the influence of his sister, an opera singer, who might have been the mistress of an influential Neapolitan noble.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

The single featured vocals from session singer Kevin Glancy who would later be tried for fraud, before re-inventing himself as a Christian singer.

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.

Pablo Picasso's style and name are known even to people who are not interested in art ; likewise many know that Harry Houdini was an illusionist, Bill Gates, an entrepreneur, Albert Einstein a scientist ; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers ; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer.

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.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

The singer, who died in 2009, was not a Fulham fan and had no interest in football whatsoever, but attended a Fulham match once, saying " Fulham fans were like people at my concerts.

Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an architect who worked for the World Bank.

He took a considerable risk during the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement sparked violence throughout the South by signing country music's first African-American singer Charley Pride, who sang rawer country than the smoother music Atkins had pioneered.

Exploiting his androgynous appearance, the original cover of the UK version unveiled two months later would depict the singer wearing a dress: taking the garment with him, he wore it during interviews — to the approval of critics, including Rolling Stones John Mendelsohn who described him as " ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall "— and in the street, to mixed reaction including laughter and, in the case of one male pedestrian, producing a gun and telling Bowie to " kiss my ass ".

She played a wisecracking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker.

The term " folk ", by the start of the 21st century, could cover singer song-writers, such as Donovan from Scotland and American Bob Dylan, who emerged in the 1960s and much more.