Acting

Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway er mest kendt for The Love Boat, What's My Line?, Great Performances og The Ed Sullivan Show. Cab Calloway er født 25. december 1907. Cab Calloway døde 18. november 1994, 86 år gammel.

Født: 25. december 1907
Fødested: Rochester, New York, USA
Død: 18. november 1994 (86 år)

Biografi

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.