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Happy 46th birthday, Jon B

He is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.

https://t.co/NtvQ6qLAKh.

#rnb #soul @OfficialJonB

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Happy 64th birthday, Talat Aziz ( طلعت عزیز )

He is a #ghazal singer from #India

https://t.co/BkjK7oUsL5

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#RIP

It is the 43rd death anniversary of Greta #Keller

She was a #cabaret singer and actress.

Keller died at age 74

https://t.co/5GasFOhMXG

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#RIP

It would have been the 93rd birthday of #صباح #Sabah today.

She was a #Lebanese singer and actress, released >50 albums + acted in 98 movies as well as >20 Lebanese stage plays.

Sabah died 6 years ago.

https://t.co/Hh5ZhqFtiQ
#Arabic #traditional

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#RIP

It is the 14th death anniversary of Gerald #Levert today

Gerald was a singer-songwriter, producer and actor.

He died at age 40

https://t.co/EumHnnKuQ6
#soul #rnb #newjackswing #LSG

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#RIP

It would have been the 92nd birthday of Ennio #Morricone today

He was an #Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor + trumpet player.
He created >400 scores for cinema +TV, as well as >100 #classical works.

He died 20 years ago

https://t.co/ySsuaqx0ts
@MEnnioMorricone

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(BBC news, Meet Prateek Kuhad - the #Indian #indie star championed by @BarackObama, Nov. 6)

https://t.co/i8IkYflu3l

@prateekkuhad #Indian #indie

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"Former US President Barack #Obama had included one of his songs, cold/mess, in his annual list of favourite music."

"the endorsement gave his career an enormous boost."

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(NYT, The Woman Who Built #Beethoven’s #Pianos, Nov. 6)
https://t.co/snZqoc1ZJl

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"she was indeed one of closest friends of #Beethoven"

"At 8, Nannette played in front of #Mozart, who criticized her posture + grimacing, but admitted that she had “genius.”
2 years later, she had mastered many of her father’s building techniques,"

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"earning a reputation as mechanical #wunderkind"

"#Streicher marginalized by history, but she was 1 of Europe’s finest #keyboard manufacturers
With a warehouse that produced 50 to 65 grand #pianos a year, Streicher’s firm was considered by many to be the finest in #Vienna"

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Happy 36th birthday, #Se7en #세븐

He is a South #Korean singer, dancer, and actor

https://t.co/1w1xnep3vv
#kpop #seven #rnb @officialse7en

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#RIP

It would have been the 79th birthday of Tom #Fogerty today.

Tom was an American musician, best known as the rhythm #guitarist for #CreedenceClearwaterRevival.

He died 30 years ago

https://t.co/bPfMlkgQpu
#rock

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#RIP

Bones Hillman

Wayne Stevens was a #NewZealand musician
best known as the #bass #guitarist
for the #Australian #alternative #rock band #MidnightOil

He died on Saturday at age 62

https://t.co/7L83Q1QjSm

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Happy 25th birthday to American #rock band #AliceInChains's self-titled 3rd studio album

It has 6.9 million scrobbles

https://t.co/HWYMyRBZkE
#grunge #alternative #metal @AliceInChains

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Yesterday was the 39th birthday of British heavy #metal vocalist #OzzyOsbourne's 2nd studio album:

Diary of a Madman

This is his last album to feature guitarist Randy Rhoads and drummer Lee Kerslake.

https://t.co/a1NZwLw7Gq
#heavymetal #hardrock @OzzyOsbourne

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Happy 40th anniversary to #Motörhead's 4th studio album today:

Ace of Spades

It has 7.1 million scrobbles

https://t.co/7VTY7KE2mX
#heavymetal #speedmetal #hardrock @myMotorhead

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#RIP

It would have been the 73rd birthday of Minnie #Riperton today.

Minnie was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You" and her five-octave coloratura #soprano range.

She died at age 31

https://t.co/SXARzx722D
#soul #funk #jazz

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"You don’t know anything about it because you’ve never had to subjugate yourself to it. Never!”

(The Guardian, #Singer, activist, sex machine, addict: the troubled brilliance of Billie Holiday, Nov. 6)
https://t.co/sXXwdDmm7D

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"A new #documentary uncovers lost tapes
to tell the intimate real story of the #jazz singer – one with terrible resonance today as the US continues to fight institutional #racism"

"“You don’t know what we was going through then,” he says,"

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"referring to travelling through the deep south on #CountBasie’s tour bus."

“We was going through hell!” he shouts.
“Miss #BillieHoliday didn’t have the privilege of using a #toilet in a filling station.

The boys at least could go out in the woods."