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Chitlin' Circuit. The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated ...
Indianapolis: Metropolitan School District of Warren Township: Grade school WEEM-FM: 91.7 FM: Pendleton: South Madison Community School Corp. Top 40 (CHR) WEFM: 95.9 FM: Michigan City: Michigan City FM Broadcasters, Inc. Soft adult contemporary WEGT: 89.9 FM: Greensburg: Two Black Cadillacs: WEHP: 93.7 FM: Clinton: American Hope Communications ...
Indiana was one of the first places where jazz music became popular outside of New Orleans and Chicago. In the late 1910s and through the 1920s the state had numerous bands of young musicians playing the new style for dancing. Richmond, Indiana was home to Gennett Records, known for recording a wealth of jazz, blues, and country music in the 1920s.
William A. Ketcham, Indiana Attorney General (1894–1898), Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic (1920–1921). Jon Krahulik, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1990–1993) Daisy Riley Lloyd, first female African American to serve in the Indiana legislature. Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator from Indiana.
October London. Jared Samuel Erskine (born October 17, 1986), known professionally as October London, is an American singer and songwriter. He was signed to Death Row Records by Snoop Dogg in 2022 and released his studio album, The Rebirth of Marvin, in 2023. Its single, "Back to Your Place", topped the Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart and was ...
Ruth Brown was known as the "Queen of R&B". [1] Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz ...
Elvis Presley, known as the "King of Rock and Roll", [4] gained his final R&B number one in 1958 when "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" topped the Jockeys chart. Presley had achieved several R&B number ones over the preceding two years, but as his music moved away from his rock and roll roots and into more sedate directions in the early 1960s he ...
R&B singer-songwriter Chris Brown will bring his tour to Sacramento for a night of ballads and krumping. On Tuesday, the Grammy-award-winning artist announced his North American “11:11 Tour ...