Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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Birth: | 25th December, 1907 |
Death: | 18th November, 1994 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Bandleader, Singer |
Cab Calloway was born in Rochester, New York. He was a jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer. He was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular big bands from the start of the 1930s through to the late 1940s. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.
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