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Pearl Bailey began her career in singing and dancing at 15 years old. After years of Broadway performances and touring she hosted her own TV program, “The Pearl Bailey Show.” | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
Jimi Hendrix is credited as the pioneer of a new musical form for his innovative blend of controlled distortion, fuzz and feedback. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
In 1988, Tina Turner broke the world record for the largest paying audience at a solo concert with 184,000 people in attendance. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
Regarded as “The Father of Chicago Blues,” Muddy Waters is credited as the first to fuse the electric guitar with Delta blues music. The Rolling Stones named themselves after his popular song “Rolling Stone.” | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
MC Sha-Rock is known as the first female rapper to record & the first female rapper to appear on national television after she performed on Saturday Night Live with the Funky 4+1 in February of 1981. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
Thomas Andrew Dorsey was known as the “Father of Gospel Music” for blending sacred words with secular rhythms. His most notorious composition, “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” was recorded by Mahalia Jackson, Elvis Presley & more. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
With the release of “Crazy Blues” in 1920, Mamie Smith is credited as the first African American female artist to make a blues record with vocals. It sold 1 million copies in six months. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
Nat King Cole’s record sales were so high that Capitol Records’ headquarters became known as “The House that Nat Built,” due to him being such a major contributor to their success. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
This crafty music selection device created by Ken Shyvers (inventor of the pinball machine) allowed you to select music to be played via the phone lines. You could deposit your coin into the slot, and it would ring to a female “DJ” operator who would take your request and play it so you could hear it right at your tabletop or counter. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
On July 14, 1995, the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) decided the file name extension of the compressed digital format developed by member Karlheinz Brandenburg. Suzanne Vega’s voice was used as the model for fine-tuning the mp3 compression algorithm. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
