bandleader

Example Sentences

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The Cuban-born bandleader, actor and producer is heard here in revealing recordings made late in his life for a never-published second memoir.

From Los Angeles Times

The drummer Charles Goold and his band are hard-charging on “Sequence of Events,” the opening track to his debut album as a bandleader, “Rhythm in Contrast.”

From New York Times

Andrews earned his most prominent platform after bandleader Harry James, then married to Andrews fan Grable, asked him to join the Harry James Orchestra in 1959.

From Los Angeles Times

The actor, who famously starred alongside his wife Lucille Ball as Cuban bandleader Ricky Ricardo on "I Love Lucy," passed away in 1986 from lung cancer at age 69.

From Fox News

Davis, who first recorded as Betty Mabry, got her last name from her one-year marriage to jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis.

From Seattle Times