Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s wizard of Cape jazz improvisation.
A refugee from apartheid, he has lived most of his adult life in New York, performing under the stage name Dollar Brand. He took an Islamic name in 1968 and made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
One of the hidden greats.
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The Ukraine-born Vera Brezhneva was a star singer on Russian and Ukrainian TV … until she had to choose. Although living mostly in the safety of Latvia, she returned to Ukraine and has taken a […]
Ginette DePriest has published a memoir of her late husband James DePreist. The post The maestro who overcame polio (and color prejudice) appeared first on Slippedisc.
The soprano Loretta Di Franco Pinto, who sang 929 times at the Metropolitan Opera from 1961 to 1995, has died at the age of 82. She lit up the stage, generally in secondary roles, although […]
