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Billy Eckstine
 
Date of birth: 08 July 1914
Date of death: 08 March 1993
Country Of Origin: America
Profession:

Singer

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    Billy Eckstine (8 July,1914 – 8 March, 1993), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as William Clarence Eckstein. He changed the spelling to Eckstine after a club owner said the original spelling was "too Jewish". http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/996/Billy_Eckstine_a_voice_of_distinction Eckstine was an United States jazz .... (More...)
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" Andy Kirk.was one of the fine gentlemen of our business. I think that's one of the main things, and a good musician. "

Billy Eckstine
" As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like. "

Billy Eckstine
" Bird was a pure genius. There was no-you know, you use that term is used very loosely, you know. "

Billy Eckstine
" Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. "

Billy Eckstine
" Bud went to Chicago and he told a producer there at the Club DeLise, Earl Potrella, about me and he came over and heard me and he took me over to Chicago. "

Billy Eckstine
" Byrd was was trying to kind of get away or to break himself of a narcotic habit, and it left his nervous system pretty shook up. He was shaking like this all the time, so they put him in Camarilla at the hospital there but he was gone a little bit too far. "

Billy Eckstine
" Byrd's creativity was fantastic. "

Billy Eckstine
" I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy. "

Billy Eckstine
" I don't think it helped, but you see, Byrd was on drugs since he was 16. His adult life was always on drugs so nobody ever knew-nobody would know. That's a hypothetical thing you could never tell what he would have done but he was a genius, that's all. "

Billy Eckstine
" I don't think that the narcotics did anything to enhance his playing, but who's to say, because nobody knew him when he wasn't. "

Billy Eckstine
" I had 2 beds in my room so Bud stayed with me and he said, "Well, you're right here now, why don't you come on over to Chicago?" "

Billy Eckstine
" I have one son who's a drummer and then one son writes scripts and another daughter is a model, so they're all doing their thing. "

Billy Eckstine
" I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business. "

Billy Eckstine
" I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors. "

Billy Eckstine
" I never had those hang-ups. I mean, I think the people that were concerned, maybe your agents and things had those things, but I never knew. "

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