Acting

Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway è noto soprattutto per Love Boat, What's My Line?, Great Performances e The Ed Sullivan Show. Cab Calloway è nato il 25 dicembre 1907. Cab Calloway è morto/a il 18 novembre 1994 all’età di 86 anni.

Nascita: 25 dicembre 1907
Luogo di nascita: Rochester, New York, USA
Morte: 18 novembre 1994 (86 anni)

Biografia

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.