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Herb Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino; September 24, 1913 – May 25, 2014) was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice.
22 de abr. de 2024 · Groundbreakers. Hollywood’s First “Black Singing Cowboy,” Herb Jeffries, Would Have Loved Beyoncé. The jazz vocalist turned movie star, who starred in Harlem on the Prairie in 1937, refused to...
26 de may. de 2014 · May 26, 2014 7:17 PM EDT. A mong Western stars of the late 1930s, white moviegoers saw their demographic reflected by Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and the young Duke, John Wayne. Black moviegoers had...
27 de may. de 2014 · Published 8:57 PM PDT, May 26, 2014. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the “Bronze Buckaroo” in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns, died of heart failure Sunday morning at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 100.
11 de nov. de 2014 · Herb Jeffries, baritone jazz balladeer and first black singing cowboy in the movies, was born Umberto Alexander Valentino on September 24, 1913 in Detroit, Michigan, to a mixed-race father and an Irish -born mother. His mother operated a boarding house and raised her son alone. His grandfather had a small dairy farm in Port Huron, Michigan ...
26 de may. de 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the Swing Era and made movie history in the 1930s as “The Bronze Buckaroo,” the silver screen’s first black singing cowboy,...
When a tour singing with the Blanche Calloway orchestra ended in Los Angeles, a young Jeffries - still in his 20s - began searching for financing to make the cowboy serials he knew would be a hit. In 1936 Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer, finally gave him his first chance. "He bought my story in 15 minutes," Jeffries explains.
