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Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Philippé Wynne
Philippé Wynne (April 3, 1941 – July 14, 1984), born Phillip Walker in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Phillip was an American R&B singer. Best known for his role as the lead singer of The Spinners (a role shared with Bobby Smith), Wynne scored notable hits such as "How Could I Let You Get Away", "The Rubberband Man",and "One of a Kind (Love Affair)".
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, comedian, and musician.
The box office take from Murphy's films makes him the second-highest grossing actor in the United States. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He was ranked #10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.
He has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs, Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor. In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role.
Murphy grew up in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
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Friday, April 4th, 2025
Jay-Z and Beyonce
Wedding Anniversay
American Music Superstars Jay-z and Beyoncé Knowles married on April 4, 2008 in New York City.
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Friday, April 4th, 2025
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton.
She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences.
The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years.
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Monday, April 7th, 2025
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959 in Philadelphia, PA) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young. Her vocal style, and musical talents pioneered and infulenced jazz music tempo in a way never seen before.
She co-wrote several jazz standards, including "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing songs like "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit".
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Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
Kenneth Brian "Babyface" Edmonds (born April 10, 1958 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, record producer, film producer, and entrepreneur.
Edmonds played with funk performer Bootsy Collins, who tagged him "Babyface" while he was still a teen.
One of his first major credits as a songwriter for outside artists came when he wrote the tune "Slow-Jam" for the R&B band Midnight Star in 1983. The tune was on Midnight Star's double-platinum No Parking on the Dance Floor album, and while it never hit the charts, the song is still played on quiet storm shows.
Written and produced music for the likes of Bobby Brown, Karyn White, Pebbles, Paula Abdul, Whitney Houston and many others.
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Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Kenny Lattimore
Kenny Lattimore (born April 10, 1970) is an American R&B singer. Among his most popular hits were "Never Too Busy" and "For You".
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Saturday, April 12th, 2025
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (b. April 12, 1940) was born in Chicago, Illinois. Like many jazz pianists, Hancock started with a classical music education.
Herbie is a pianist, bandleader and composer. Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk
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Sunday, April 13th, 2025
Al Green
Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946, Forrest City, Arkansas), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Green in 1995, referring to him as "one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music." Selling more than 20 million records.
He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together".
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Sunday, April 13th, 2025
Peabo Bryson
Born Robert Peapo Bryson on April 13, 1951, in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter.
He is well known for singing soft-rock ballads (often as a duo with female singers) and his contribution to several Disney animated feature soundtracks.
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