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Herb Jeffries (1913-2014) was a versatile performer of film, TV and music, known for his baritone voice and "race" Westerns. He had a mixed ethnic background and claimed to be Creole or black to join black bands, but later identified as white for marriage.
Herb Jeffries was a versatile performer who starred in black-cast films, sang jazz and cowboy songs, and broke racial barriers in Hollywood. He was born in 1913, worked with Duke Ellington, and died in 2014 at age 100.
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May 26, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the Swing Era and made movie history in the 1930s as “The Bronze Buckaroo,” the silver screen’s first black singing cowboy, has...
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4 days ago · Jeffries, who was around 100 when he died in 2014, was a lifelong storyteller, but his own narrative required little embellishment. I absolutely believe what he once told an interviewer about the person audiences knew as Herb Jeffries: “I invented him.”• Related Stories. Paula West’s Blues; Wine Country Gets Lit
May 26, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity — died...
May 27, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed in a series of all-black Western movies in the 1930s, has died at the age of 100. Known to cinema audiences as the Bronze Buckaroo, he...
May 27, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the “Bronze Buckaroo” in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns, died of heart failure Sunday...
