Acting

Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway ist vor allem bekannt für Love Boat, What's My Line?, Great Performances und The Ed Sullivan Show. Cab Calloway wurde am 25. Dezember 1907 geboren. Cab Calloway starb am 18. November 1994 im Alter von 86 Jahren.

Geboren: 25. Dezember 1907
Geburtsort: Rochester, New York, USA
Gestorben: 18. November 1994 (86 Jahre)

Biografie

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.