“Soul Brother #1,”The Godfather of Soul,” “Mr. Dynamite,”
“Sex Machine,” “The Minister of the New New Super Heavy
Funk.” These are some of the names by which the world
would eventually know James Joseph Brown, Jr., the
revolutionary musical figure who was born on May 3, 1933.

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)

Singer, songwriter, musician, political activist and actor, Willie       
Hugh Nelson once worked spinning country records at KVAN
radio in Vancouver, Washington.   

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996)

On April 25, 1917, jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport
News, Virginia.

Fitzgerald’s most famous collaborations were with the vocal
quartet Bill Kenny & the Ink Spots, trumpeter Louis Armstrong,
the guitarist Joe Pass, and the bandleaders Count Basie and
Duke Ellington.

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Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)

On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocked out the first home run
of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron
becomes baseball’s new home run king when he broke Babe
Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career homers.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, Aaron  began his professional
baseball career in 1952 in the Negro League and joined the
Milwaukee Braves of the major leagues in 1954, eight years
after Jackie Robinson had integrated baseball. Aaron,
nicknamed "Hammer", was the last Negro League player
to compete in the majors.

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