Broadway

Eubie Blake

He was born James Hubert Blake. He wrote Shuffle Along, among the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans. Eubie! opened on Broadway in 1978 and featured his body of work. He was he sole survivor of 8 children who died in infancy. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in […]

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Al Jarreau

Born Alvin Lopez Jarreau in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sunrise March 12, 1940, sunset February 12, 2017, Los Angeles, California He was a PK, preacher’s kid, his dad was a Seventh Day Adventist minister. He embraced Scientology at one time, but later dissociated himself from it. He was married twice and had one son. He wrote the […]

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