Pianist Billy Strayhorn

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Billy Strayhorn

Living place: Dayton

Birthday: 29-11-1915

Population of US 1915: 100,546,000

Global rank: #56944

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Who is Pianist Billy Strayhorn?
This popular jazz artist collaborated for three decades with Duke Ellington.
He spent most of his life in the shadows of Ellington, but jazz fans consider his works Lush Life, Take "A" Train, and Chelsea Bridge as classics.

Young / Before famous

He studied piano in school and worked odd jobs so he could buy his piano.

Family life info

He spent most of his childhood with his maternal grandparents because of his father's problems with alcohol. His grandmother cultivated a great love for music in him, and he spent most of his time playing hymns on his piano and listening to records on her Victrola recorder.

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Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Pianist Billy Strayhorn là ai?
His work with Ellington on the 1959 Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger and starring James Stewart, was heralded for its non-diegetic music.

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When was Pianist Billy Strayhorn born?
Billy Strayhorn was born in 29-11-1915, death year is , at the age of 109.
Where is Pianist Billy Strayhorn's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Billy Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio- United States. Là Pianist, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Billy Strayhorn's global rank is 56944 and whose rank is 168 in list of famous Pianist. Population of US in 1915 is about 100,546,000 persons.
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Events in 1915 and 29-11

Events in US in the birth year of Billy Strayhorn

  • The one millionth Ford automobile rolls off the assembly line.
  • The Superior Court in Fulton County, Ga. accepts the charter for the establishment of the new Ku Klux Klan (Dec. 4).

Birthday Billy Strayhorn (29-11) in history

  • Day 29-11 year 1924: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot.'"
  • Day 29-11 year 1929: Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole.
  • Day 29-11 year 1947: The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine.
  • Day 29-11 year 1963: President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
  • Day 29-11 year 1986: Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
  • Day 29-11 year 2001: Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.
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