Pop - Singer Gene Austin

Gene Austin

Living place: Texas

Birthday: 24-6-1900

Population of US 1900: 76,094,000

Global rank: #68916

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Pop - Singer Gene Austin profile

Who is Pop - Singer Gene Austin?
Singer-songwriter who pioneered the humming style popularized by Frank Sinatra and whose song "The Lonesome Road" became a standard.
After having an audition with the Victor Record Company, he impressed Nat Shilkret, the music director, for which he published Austin's music.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He grew up studying piano, guitar, and singing in a church choir near Shreveport, Louisiana.

Family life info

He was born Lemeul Eugene Lucas in Gainesville, Texas, north of Dallas, borrowing his stage name from his stepfather, Jim Austin.

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When asked how he came to the humming style, he reported that he tried to imagine how Al Jolson's mother used to sing softly to him.

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When was Pop - Singer Gene Austin born?
Gene Austin was born in 24-6-1900, death year is , at the age of 124.
Where is Pop - Singer Gene Austin's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Gene Austin was born in Texas, . is a Pop - Singer, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Gene Austin's global rank is 68916 and whose rank is 3161 in list of famous Pop - Singer. Population of US in 1900 is about 76,094,000 persons.
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Events in 1900 and 24-6

Events in US in the birth year of Gene Austin

  • Hurricane ravages Galveston, Tex.; 6,000 – 8,000 dead. Background: U.S. Hurricanes
  • Carrie Chapman Catt succeeds Susan B. Anthony as president of National Woman Suffrage Association.

Birthday Gene Austin (24-6) in history

  • Day 24-6 year 1509: Henry VIII is officially crowned king of England.
  • Day 24-6 year 1647: Early American feminist Margaret Brent requested a seat and vote in the Maryland Congress but was removed from that body.
  • Day 24-6 year 1675: The day of the deadliest war commanded by King Philip between the colonists and the Indians began with the Indians attacking the settlement of Swansea (Mass).
  • Day 24-6 year 1908: The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J.
  • Day 24-6 year 1947: Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
  • Day 24-6 year 1948: The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
  • Day 24-6 year 1997: The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.
  • Day 24-6 year 2011: New York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.
  • Day 24-6 year 2012: Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
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