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Died of cardiac arrest, November 23, 2006, Los Angeles, California. orn Anita Belle Colton in Kansas City, MO on October 18, 1919, O’Day got her start as a teen. She eventually changed her name to O’Day and in the late 1930s began singing in a jazz club called the Off-Beat, a popular hangout for musicians like band leader and drummer Gene ...
15 gen 2024 · After Burnin’ Beat, Krupa, who suffered from ill-health in the last decade of his life, only recorded three more albums, his final one coming in 1972, the year before his death at the age of 64.
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Drummer Gene Krupa playing drum at Gjon Mili's studio.
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This musical biopic is based on the life of Gene Krupa (Sal Mineo), the famed jazz drummer. His Catholic parents want him to be a priest, but Krupa rebels and moves away to make it as a musician in New York City, along with his friend Eddie (James Darren). He eventually falls for a girl, Ethel (Susan Kohner). But the seductions of other women, drugs and fame -- plus a lack of a formal music ...
31 ago 2021 · Gene Krupa: A Tribute. by Steve Dunfey. On January 17, 1909, legendary jazz drummer Gene Krupa was born on the South Side of Chicago. On what would have been his 85th birthday this year (1994), drummers should celebrate the notoriety Krupa brought to drums and drumming. As the late jazz writer George Frazier put it, "He helped create a new culture.
11 gen 2024 · Gene Krupa was born in Chicago on 15 January, 1909, ... Gene’s personal life was in turmoil. He split with his wife Ethel in 1941 and had to pay her a settlement of $100,000.
