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José Rosario Oviedo (October 5, 1885 – 1927), better known as Malanga, was a Cuban rumba dancer. He is considered one of the most famous columbia dancers and his mysterious death has been the subject of numerous essays, poems and songs, most notably "Malanga murió", written by Faustino Drake and performed by Arsenio Rodríguez amongst others.
Marie-Claire Mboyo Moseka (born 10 January 1959), known professionally as M'bilia Bel, is a Congolese singer and songwriter. [1] [2] Dubbed the "Queen of African Rumba" [3] [4] and "Queen Cleopatra", [5] [6] she is regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Congolese and African popular music.
Anita "Margarita" Mahfood (died 2 January 1965) was a dancer, actress, and singer in Jamaica.She was called "the famous Rhumba queen" [2] and headlined performances. She also performed reggae music, writing and singing her own music, one of the first women in Jamaica to do so.
(Barry Gibb, 78, is the only surviving family member; Maurice Gibb died in 2003 at 53 and Robin died in 2012 at 62. Younger brother Andy Gibb, a teen idol and solo artist, died in 1988 at age 30.)
The song-and-dance man started young, blazed trails as perhaps the first Black regular on a TV variety show and kept at it until his death at 97. Arthur Duncan, who kept virtuoso tap dancing alive ...
Sherry's death is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the first fatal stage dive by a musician. [ 56 ] 3 October: Franco Scoglio , Italian football manager and sport TV commenter, died of a heart attack while on the air during a program on the Genoan private TV station Primocanale , after a heated discussion over the phone with ...
Dr. Ruth Westheimer. The celebrity sex therapist died on Friday, July 12, in her New York City home, her spokesman confirmed to The New York Times the following day. She was 96. Her career in ...
By the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wemba's style was more readily identifiable even as it had become an amalgamation of rumba, soukous and ndombolo, Latin and rock, melded to a European-oriented pop style. [10] But still wanting to expand their musical horizons, and move in new musical directions, [10] Viva la Musica took on a dual-identity ...