Also known as Herbert Jeffries
American singer and actor (1913-2014)
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Herbert "Herb" Jeffries, born Umberto Alexander Valentino (September 24, 1913 – May 25, 2014), was an American jazz and popular singer and actor. In the 1940s and 1950s Jeffries recorded for a number of labels, including RCA Victor, Exclusive, Coral, Decca, Bethlehem, Columbia, Mercury and Trend. His album Jamaica, recorded by RKO, is a concept album of self-composed calypso songs. Jeffries was born Umberto Alexander Valentino in Detroit to an Irish mother who ran a rooming house <a href="http
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