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Hace 21 horas · Life Early life in Russia, 1882–1901 Fyodor and Anna Stravinsky, Igor's parents, in 1874. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia—a town now called Lomonosov, about fifty kilometers west of Saint Petersburg—on 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882. His mother, Anna Kirillovna Stravinskaya (née Kholodovsky), came from a family of landowning noblemen, and was educated in singing ...
Hace 21 horas · Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The ...
