Cab Calloway
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About
Jazz bandleader and singer who sang "Minnie the Moocher" and "St. James Infirmary Blues" as well as led and performed with one of the best big bands. "Minnie the Moocher" has accumulated over 10 million streams on Spotify.
Before Fame
He and his sister Blanche toured with a popular black music revue called Plantation Days.
Trivia
He devoted his entire life to making and performing music, singing up until his death at the age of eighty-six in 1994. He released six albums of his own throughout his long career.
Family Life
He married Wenonah Betty Conacher in 1928; after their divorce in 1949, he remarried Zulme Nuffie MacNeal in 1953.
Associated With
He led his big band and staffed it with artists like Dizzy Gillespie.
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