Fats Waller
Swing music, Musical Artist
1904 – 1943
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Who was Fats Waller?
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller was an influential jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer, whose innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano, and whose best-known compositions, "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame posthumously, in 1984 and 1999.
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- Born
- May 21, 1904
Harlem - Also known as
- Thomas Wright Waller
- Waller Fats
- Thomas 'Fats' Walter
- Thomas "Fats" Waller
- Waller, Fats
- J. Lawrence Cook
- Thomas Wright "Fats
- Waller
- Parents
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- DeWitt Clinton High School
- Lived in
- Harlem
(1904 - ) - New York City
- Harlem
- Died
- Dec 15, 1943
Kansas City
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on July 23, 2013
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