Phyllis Hyman, BOTD July 6, 1949 in Philadelphia, PA. The Philadelphia native was a popular jazz club singer in New York when hot producer Norman Connors witnessed her show and pegged her to perform a cover of the Stylistics' "Betcha By Golly Wow" on his You Are My Starship album.
BOTD Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr. July 1, 1936) television personality, entrepreneur, and author from Tallahassee, FL. He is the founder of the Famous Amos chocolate-chip cookie, the Cookie Kahuna, and Aunt Della's Cookies gourmet cookie brands, and he was the host of the adult reading program, Learn to Read.
🥳🎉 Happy Birthday Stanley Clarke! Born June 30th, 1951 in Philadelphia, PA. Bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands.
BOTD - Lena Mary Calhoun Horne June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, NY. Singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television, and theatre.
🎉🥳 Happy 68th Birthday, David Alan Grier. Comedian and Emmy-winning actor known for starring in In Living Color, Martin and the movie A Soldiers Story. #DavidAlanGrier
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🎉🥳✔️Happy 55th Birthday, Tichina Arnold! Emmy-nominated actress and singer known for starring in Martin and Everybody Hates Chris. #TichinaArnold
Can the fish 🐠 save music 🎶? #fishfever #thefishthatsavedpittsburgh #cultclassic #movie #uptownjazznet #djatrain98
#fishfever #thefishthatsavedpittsburgh #cultclassic #movie #uptownjazznet #djatrain98
Remembering Tommy “Tiny” Deebo Lister, who was born on this day.(June 24, 1958 – December 10, 2020)He was a character actor and occasional professional wrestler. He is known for his roles as the neighborhood bully Deebo in the 1995 film Friday
HAPPY 64th BIRTHDAY to Donald Harrison!!!
New Orleans born saxophonist Donald Harrison is a musician/composer who master musicians consider a master of every era of jazz, soul, funk, and a composer of orchestral classical music.
Musicians should not get tied up in academic things and their egos and the money thing or they'll never be able to really create. (Sun Ra) #uptownjazznet
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🥳🎉Happy birthday to the legendary singer and songwriter, Lionel Richie, born June 20, 1949.
#EllaFitzgerald #WillieMays #jazz #uptownjazznetwork
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Happy Birthday to the late Jackie Wilson, born June 9th, 1934. Born in Highland Park, Michigan
🥳🎉✔️Happy 66th Birthday to Keenen Ivory Wayans. Born June 8, 1958, He is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
