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Billy Eckstine

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Now Singing in 12 Great M (2002)	Once More With Feeling (1997)	The Magnificent Mr. B (1996)
Billy's Best! (1995)	Stormy / Feel the Warm (1989)	Billy Eckstine Sings With (1987)
Imagination (1958)	The Irving Berlin Songboo (0)

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Jazz

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Jazz

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Born

1914

Active
1914 to 1993

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William Clarence Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American singer of ballads and a bandleader of the swing era. Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big-band, then as the first romantic black male in popular music. Eckstine's recording of "I Apologize" (MGM Pop Single, 1948) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999.