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Herb Jeffries (1913-2014) was a versatile performer of film, TV and music, known for his baritone voice and "race" Westerns. He had a mixed ethnic background and claimed to be Creole or black to join black bands, but later identified as white for marriage.
Herbert "Herb" Jeffries, nacido como Umberto Alexander Valentino (24 de septiembre de 1913 - 25 de mayo de 2014), fue un cantante de jazz y actor estadounidense.
Herb Jeffries was a versatile performer who starred in black-cast films, sang jazz and cowboy songs, and broke racial barriers in Hollywood. He was born in 1913, worked with Duke Ellington, and died in 2014 at age 100.
America’s first black singing movie star, Herb Jeffries, was a television actor, western crooner, ladies’ man, and accidental activist.
Herb Jeffries (1913 - 2014) fue un actor y compositor de Estados Unidos conocido por Calypso Joe, The Bronze Buckaroo, Portrait of a Hitman, Harlem on the Prairie, Chrome and Hot Leather, In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema y Tempest Storm.
27 de may. de 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who starred in four all-black Western movies in the 1930s, died at 100. He also sang with Duke Ellington and received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
26 de may. de 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity —...
