african american musicians
TJ G
1992 births | african american musicians | african american rappers | american christians | american record producers | living people | people from boston | people from boston, massachusettsSebhastien A Gibosse (ˈzhe-bo-say) (born March 13 1992) is an American rap artist and hip hop producer.
DJ Hollygrove
1984 births | african american musicians | african hip hop djs | djs | houston musicians | houston rap artists | new orleans musicians | new orleans rap artists | people from new orleansDJ Hollygrove, born Donald Louding, Jr. April 9th, 1984, is an up and coming DJ in the Houston rap scene. An amazing trombonist, accomplished actor, and talented DJ. He is the current Dj for Mr. Wired Up who has the number one (1) club song in Houston of 2007; as listed in Ozone Magazine by Crisco Kid of the Bumsquad Djz.
David Sanford (composer)
1963 births | african american musicians | american jazz bandleaders | american jazz composers | american jazz musicians | people from pennsylvania | people from pittsburgh | progressive big band bandleadersDavid Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963.
Biography
Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963, into a musical family. His parents and one of his grandfathers were choir leaders, his other grandfather was a jazz trumpeter, and his great-grandmother Mozie Bass had composed songs and music for church pageants; he also has a brother who is a music teacher and singer in Colorado, where the family moved. The young David Sanford acquired an enthusiasm for big band music early on, playing trombone from around the age of ten. He went on to major in music at the University of Northern Colorado, and earned master's degrees in theory and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. Supported partly by a Guggenheim Fellowship and partly by a job in the financial services industry, he undertook doctoral studies at Princeton, where he completed his dissertation on Miles Davis in 1998. That same year he joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke, where he teaches theory, composition, and various history courses, including one on music of the 1970's.Canray Fontenot
african american musicians | louisiana musicians | zydeco musiciansCanray Fontenot (October 23, 1922 - July 29, 1995) was an American Creole fiddler who specialized in Cajun music (called "la la music" or "la musique Creole") and was influential in what became zydeco music. He is widely known as the "last of the great Creole and Cajun fiddlers."
Early Life
