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Andy Russell
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American singer (1919-1992)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1915
- Works
- 22
Top works
- Alberta on My Mind
- Memoirs of a Mountain Man
- Andy Russell's Campfire Stories
- Great bear adventures
- Alpine Canada
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Film & TV
Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA
Andy Russell (September 16, 1919-April 16, 1992) was an American popular vocalist, specializing in traditional pop and Latin music. He was born Andrés Rabago Pérez in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles. He was one of ten children (eight boys, two girls) born to parents who were Mexican immigrants of Spanish descent. Already as a teenager he had begun to perform as a vocalist and drummer…
Known for
- The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema2002
- The Wizard of Dreams — The Dream Wizard (voice)1966
- Vístete Cristina1959
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self1957
- Spring in the Heart — Andrés Valdés1956
- ¡Viva la juventud! — Pancho Andreú1956
- ¡Qué bravas son las costeñas! — Tony López1955
- Your Show of Shows1950
- Andy And Della Russell1950
- Copacabana — Andy Russell1947
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- Listeners
- 8,808
- Total plays
- 38,677
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Andy Russell (September 16, 1919 - April 16, 1992) Born Andres Rabajos in Los Angeles to Mexican immigrant parents, Andy Russell (who took his professional name from one of his idols, Russ Columbo,) acheived his greatest U.S. popularity in the 1940s. As with Columbo and Bing Crosby before him, he started out singing with Gus Arnheim's orchestra at the Cocoanut Grove, but, at only 13, he was so young that Arnheim had to become his legal guardian to permit him to travel out of state. <a href="htt
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrés
- Family name
- Russell
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boyle Heights
- Place of death
- Sun City
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- traditional pop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Image
- Portrait of Andy Russell, Eddie Condon's, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1947 William P Gottlieb graphic.jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
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- birth name
- Andrés Rábago
- pseudonym
- Andy Russell
- date of birth
- 1919-09-16
- date of death
- 1992-04-16
- Commons category
- Andy Russell (singer)
- start of work period
- 1934-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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