Billy Eckstine
| Born | July 8, 1914 |
| Hometown | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Spouse | Carolle Drake, June Harris |
| Children | Guy Eckstine |
| Parents | William Eckstein, Charlotte Eckstein |
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Living Legends Foundation to Honor Harvey Mason, Jr., Ed Eckstine, Donnie Simpson & More at 2024 Awards Dinner and?Gala
- The annual event will take place in Hollywood on Oct. 4.
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‘No Ordinary Man’ Review: Riveting Dive Into the Past Heralds the Future of Trans Cinema
TIFF: A fascinating meta portrait of pianist Billy Tipton, a transgender man who died in 1989, as told by trans masculine actors and thinkers.
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George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Sheila E. to Perform in ‘Grammy Salute’ Airing Friday
Parliament-Funkadelic stars George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, along with Sheila E. and many others, perform in the “Grammy Salute to Music Legends” airing as part of PBS' "Great Performances" series Friday night. The show, the fourth annual all-star concert offering a primetime spotlight for the Academy's 2019 Special Merit Awards recipients, premieres nationwide Friday, Oct. […]
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Black Sabbath, George Clinton, More to Receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards
Black Sabbath,?George Clinton?& Parliament-Funkadelic,?Billy Eckstine,?Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesias, Sam & Dave and?Dionne Warwick will receive Lifetime Achievement Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy announced today. It also announced that impresario Lou Adler,?legendary songwriting and performing duo Ashford & Simpson,?and?Oscar-winning songwriter and arranger Johnny Mandel?are Trustees Award honorees; and Saul Walker is the Technical GRAMMY Award recipient. […]
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Sammy Davis Jr. Biopic Project Sets Up At Paramount Pictures
<strong>EXCLUSIVE:</strong> The biopic about Sammy Davis, Jr. now has been set up at Paramount Pictures, where producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has his overall deal. The project is on the development fast track, soon to be hiring a writer and a director to make the feature film about the dancer-singer-actor-musician to becoming a reality. The movie will be based in large part on the 1965 memoir? <em>Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.</em>?that he penned with Jane and Burt Boyar. Davis’ heir
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The Book on Miles
In Miles: The Autobiography the trumpeter Miles Davis remembers his excitement at hearing the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, in a St. Louis nightclub in 1944. It was his first in-person exposure to bebop, and also his baptism by fire as a musician—just eighteen at the time, he was pressed into service as an emergency fill-in. “The way that band was playing music—that was all I wanted to hear.”
