Georgia Gibbs

Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950s copying songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later became a featured vocalist for many radio and television variety and comedy programs. Her key attribute was tremendous versatility and an uncommon stylistic range from melancholy ballad to uptempo swinging jazz and rock and roll.

17 August 1919

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Born in the same month (August 1919): Godfrey Hounsfield • Huntz Hall • J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist) • Jaap Rijks • Joop den Uyl • Malcolm Forbes • Margaret Burbidge • Michel Déon • Murray Grand • Wally Hickel • William P. Foster • Wolfgang Wagner