Jazz Singer Helen Humes

Helen Humes

Living place: Kentucky

Birthday: 23-6-1913

Population of US 1913: 97,225,000

Global rank: #99094

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Jazz Singer Helen Humes profile

Who is Jazz Singer Helen Humes?
Remembered for her contributions to the jazz, swing, blues and R&B music genres, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for her 1981 jazz vocal album Helen. Her previous recordings include Biz-Ness Tain't Who If I Do (1959), Swingin' with Hume (1961), and Sneakin' Around (1974). She contributed to the soundtrack of my 1950 film Blue Heaven and Panic in the Streets and appeared in Dizzy Gillespie Jivin's musical film in Be-Bop.
 
 

Young / Before famous

While participating in a vocal competition in 1926, she was discovered by blues guitarist Sylvester Weaver, and she went on to record her first blues album when she was only fourteen years old.

Family life info

The only child of Emma Johnson and attorney John Henry Humes, she grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. After living and performing in Buffalo, New York and Cincinnati, Ohio, she settled in Los Angeles, California.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Jazz Singer Helen Humes?
She rose to fame singing in The Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as a replacement for the band's previous touring singer, Billie Holiday, and was featured on the album The Original American Decca Recordings of the group.

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Summary of Helen Humes profile

When was Jazz Singer Helen Humes born?
Helen Humes was born in 23-6-1913, death year is , at the age of 111.
Where is Jazz Singer Helen Humes's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Helen Humes was born in Kentucky, . is a Jazz Singer, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Helen Humes's global rank is 99094 and whose rank is 133 in list of famous Jazz Singer. Population of US in 1913 is about 97,225,000 persons.
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Events in 1913 and 23-6

Events in US in the birth year of Helen Humes

  • Garment workers strike in New York and Boston; win pay raises and reduced hours. Background: Labor Unions
  • Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) and 17th (popular election of U.S. senators) adopted. Background: Amendments to the Constitution
  • Bill creating U.S. Federal Reserve System becomes law.
  • Woodrow Wilson becomes 28th U.S. President.
  • Armory Show in New York introduces Americans to European modern art as well as the American Ashcan School.

Birthday Helen Humes (23-6) in history

  • Day 23-6 year 1868: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a ''Type-Writer.''
  • Day 23-6 year 1947: The Senate overrode President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
  • Day 23-6 year 1969: Warren Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Day 23-6 year 1972: Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman discussed ways to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. Revelation of this conversation spurred on Nixon's 1974 resignation.
  • Day 23-6 year 1992: Mobster John Gotti was sentenced to life in prison.
  • Day 23-6 year 1995: Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died.
  • Day 23-6 year 2003: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy.
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