Were Studs Terkel and Billie Letts of the same nationality?
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Studs Terkel Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for ""The Good War"", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
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Billie Letts Billie Dean Letts (née Gipson; May 30, 1938 – August 2, 2014) was an American novelist and educator. She was a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
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Vince Weber Vince Weber (born October 26, 1953, Hamburg) is a German blues and boogie-woogie pianist.
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Albert Heath Albert "Tootie" Heath (born May 31, 1935) is an American jazz hard bop drummer, the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the double-bassist Percy Heath.
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Johnny Letman Johnny Letman (September 6, 1917 – July 17, 1992) was an American jazz trumpeter.
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Oscar Treadwell Oscar Treadwell (born Arthur Pedersen) (May 11, 1926 - April 1, 2006) was an American jazz radio journalist and presenter. Known as "OT", he became known mainly by a dedication to him by Charlie Parker, a composition called "An Oscar for Treadwell".
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Lill-Babs Lill-Babs (born Barbro Margareta Svensson on 9 March 1938) is a Swedish singer and actress of major notoriety in her native country.
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Lionel Hampton Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.
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Sidi Tal Sidi L'vovna Tal' (Russian: Сиди Львовна Таль ) or Sidy Thal (born Yiddish: Sorele Birkental‎ "(Сореле Биркенталь)" on 8 September 1912 — died 17 August 1983) was a prominent, popular Jewish singer and actress in the Yiddish language, born in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). She worked in Romania and in the USSR. She and her husband, Pinkus Falik (producer of Gery Scott), encouraged the start of the career of the Ukrainian pop singer Sofia Rotaru.
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Eje Thelin Eje Thelin (born Eilert Ove Thelin) (June 9, 1938 – May 18, 1990) was an innovative Swedish trombonist, widely admired among fellow trombonists for his facile technique and rhythmic intensity. He was, perhaps, the first jazz trombonist to translate that technique into the so-called "sheets of sound" style that characterized much of the music of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and, in general, Free Jazz of the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Johnnie Davis Johnnie Davis, also billed as Johnny Davis and Johnnie "Scat" Davis, (April 11, 1910 – October 28, 1983) was an American actor, singer and trumpeter.
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Jim Aton James G. Aton (1925 – September 16, 2008), best known as Jim Aton or Jimmy Aton, was an American jazz bassist, pianist, vocalist and composer. He worked with numerous notable artists including Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day and Bill Evans. He appeared in films such as "Bop Girl Goes Calypso" (1957) with the Bobby Troup Trio, "Roustabout" (1964) with Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck, and "They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?" (1969) with Jane Fonda.
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Evelyn Lett Evelyn Lett, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (Oct. 17, 1896 – March 26, 1999) was a Canadian women's rights pioneer.
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Astrid Varnay Ibolyka Astrid Maria Varnay (25 April 1918 4 September 2006) was a Swedish-born American dramatic soprano of Hungarian descent. She spent most of her career in the United States and Germany. She was, along with Birgit Nilsson, Martha Mödl, Kirsten Flagstad, and Gertrud Grob-Prandl, one of the five leading Wagnerian heroic sopranos of her generation. Her voice on record is readily recognisable by its fiery tone and seemingly limitless upper register.
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Aksella Luts Aksella Hildegard Luts (10 October 1905 - 8 January 2005) was an Estonian actress, screenwriter, dancer and choreographer.
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Petra Unkel Petra Unkel (born 3 March 1925) is a Hungarian-born German film actress.
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Tootsie Duvall Tootsie Duvall (sometimes credited as Susan Duvall or Susan "Tootsie" Duvall) is an American film, theatre and television actress.
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David Johansen (album) David Johansen is a 1978 album by the rock musician David Johansen and his first solo album following his tenure as lead singer of the New York Dolls. The album was released on Blue Sky Records, a sub-label of Columbia Records that was associated with Johnny and Edgar Winter. "David Johansen" also features fellow New York Doll guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, who was a member of the David Johansen Band at that time. Sylvain co-wrote four of the songs with Johansen. The single from the album was Johansen and Sylvain's "Funky But Chic", backed with "The Rope (The Let Go Song)", which has been included as a bonus track on the CD. "David Johansen" was voted the tenth best record of 1978 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by "The Village Voice".
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Lucky Thompson Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. While John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s, Thompson (along with Steve Lacy) embraced the instrument earlier than Coltrane.
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Lionel Tertis Lionel Tertis, CBE (29 December 187622 February 1975) was an English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame. He was also a noted teacher.
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Milt Raskin Milt Raskin (January 27, 1916 – October 16, 1977) was an American swing jazz pianist.
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Noble &quot;Thin Man&quot; Watts Noble "Thin Man" Watts (February 17, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was an American blues, jump blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist. He primarily played tenor saxophone. The AllMusic journalist, Bill Dahl, considered Watts "one of the most incendiary [...] fire-breathing tenor sax honkers" of the 1950s.