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* Today in Black History - March 26 *
1944 - Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan. Ross, with Mary Wilson
and Florence Ballard, will form the Supremes in 1961 and have 15
consecutive smash-hit singles with the group. Ross will also
pursue an acting career in such movies as "Lady Sings the Blues"
and receive a Tony Award for her Broadway show, "An Evening with
Diana Ross." Both with the Supremes and as a solo artist, she
will have more number-one records than any other artist in the
history of the charts.
1950 - Theodore Pendergrass is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He
will become a lead singer for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
in 1970 and will pursue an active solo career in 1976. His solo
career will later be temporarily interrupted by an auto accident
that will leave him paralyzed from the chest down. His debut
album, "Teddy Pendergrass (1977)," struck Platinum, as did the
next four albums - "Life Is A Song Worth Singing," "Teddy,"
"Teddy Live" and "T.P." Other releases include "Love Language,"
"Working It Back" and "Joy." He will be nominated for a Grammy
more than three times and be the holder of a 1980 "Best Rhythm &
Blues Artist" award from Billboard Magazine. The Philadelphia
Music Foundation will honor him with a Philadelphia Music Award
for "Best Urban Album" in 1989.
* Today in Black History - March 27 *
1872 - Cleveland Luca, a musician, member of the famous musical Luca
Family Quartet and composer of the Liberian National Anthem,
joins the ancestors in Liberia.
1924 - Sarah Vaughan is born in Newark, New Jersey. On a dare, she
will enter a 1943 amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre in
Harlem and be hired by Earl "Fatha" Hines as a result of her
performance. She will begin recording in 1945, be considered
one of the finest jazz vocalists, and earn the nickname "The
Divine One."
* Today in Black History - March 28 *
1958 - William Christopher (W.C.) Handy joins the ancestors in New York
City at the age of 85. In the same year, the movie of his life,
"St. Louis Blues" is released, starring Nat King Cole as Handy.
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