Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963), better known as Benny Moré (also spelled Beny Moré), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter. Due to his fluid tenor voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as El Bárbaro del Ritmo and El Sonero Mayor. …
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. He is best known for a minuet from his String Quintet in…
Happy Birthday to Mika Nakashima Japanese singer 40 today, February 19, 2023.
Happy Birthday to Maiara Walsh Brazilian-American singer 35 today, February 18, 2023. Feliz Aniversário!
Nicolae Dărăscu (February 18, 1883 – August 14, 1959) was a Romanian painter. He was influenced by Impressionism and Neo-impressionism.
Nicolae Dărăscu - (n. 18 februarie 1883, Giurgiu, Vlașca, România – d. 14 august 1959, București, România), pictor român influențat de curentele impresionism și…
Happy Birthday to Elhaida Dani Albanian singer who turns 30 today, February 17, 2023. Gëzuar Ditëlindjen!
Happy Birthday to Shaya Danish-Greek singer who turns 40 today, February 17, 2023. Tillykke med fødselsdagen! Χαρούμενα Γενέθλια!
Arcangelo Corelli (17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of the violin, and as the first coalescing of modern tonality and…
Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo (16 February 1923 – 19 February 2016), was a Polish Holocaust survivor, artist, and writer. He was a Sonderkommando[citation needed] at the Treblinka extermination camp and participated in the unit's planned revolt in August 1943. While 300 escaped, about 79 were…
Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist. In addition to his work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and 1970s.