Pianist Sonny Clay

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Sonny Clay

Living place: Texas

Birthday: 15-5-1899

Global rank: #72882

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Who is Pianist Sonny Clay?
Jazz artist who became an unlikely hero of Australian jazz after bringing his band to the country in 1928. His all-black jazz band won a great deal of attention. Attention in Australia is mostly white - too much attention, in fact, when the group allegedly conducted with white women and made drugs. Amidst much publicity, he was expelled.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied piano, drums, and saxophone. He started playing with local bands in Phoenix, and he toured up and down the West Coast with several orchestras.

Family life info

He was born in Chapel Hill, Texas, but his family moved to Phoenix when he was eight.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Pianist Sonny Clay?
The scuffle with Australia and the country's ensuing ban on black musicians kept Louis Armstrong from performing there until 1954.

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When was Pianist Sonny Clay born?
Sonny Clay was born in 15-5-1899, death year is , at the age of 125.
Where is Pianist Sonny Clay's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Sonny Clay was born in Texas, . is a Pianist, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Sonny Clay's global rank is 72882 and whose rank is 342 in list of famous Pianist.
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Events in 1899 and 15-5

Birthday Sonny Clay (15-5) in history

  • Day 15-5 year 1862: The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.
  • Day 15-5 year 1911: The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • Day 15-5 year 1918: The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.
  • Day 15-5 year 1930: On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
  • Day 15-5 year 1940: Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
  • Day 15-5 year 1972: Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.
  • Day 15-5 year 1988: The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
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