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Don Shirley, the renowned Black pianist who was told he wouldn’t make it as a classical artist
Don Shirley was born to Jamaican immigrants in 1927, and his parents encouraged his musical skill from a young age. He was ...
Donald Walbridge Shirley was an American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence during the 1950s and 1960s, experimenting with jazz with a classical influence. He ...
In 1962, casually racist Italian-American bouncer Tony "Lip" Vallelonga and Don Shirley, a gifted Jamaican-American musician, had very little in common — yet a road trip through the South led to these ...
One of the moments in “Green Book” that reveals the most about Donald Shirley — a dandified, erudite piano virtuoso whose career was impeded by racial discrimination — doesn’t have anything to do with ...
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