Englewood Makes History

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  • Lisa Williamson is an author, rapper, and activist. She moved to Englewood when she was ten and attended Dwight Morrow High School. She won a scholarship and attended Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program. She attended Rutgers, graduating with a degree in American History…
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  • Eric Jay Williams is a singer and songwriter. He was born in Englewood and attended Dwight Morrow High School. He began collaborating with legendary Hip-Hop DJ and producer Marley Marl. Williams was a pioneer of blending R&B with rap singing while on tour as part of the R&B…
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  • Sarah Lois Vaughan was a singer and musician. She began her career in the 1940s touring with Earl Hines. She began a solo career in 1945. She eventually joined the Columbia record label. She joined the Mercury record label from 1954 to 1959. After that, she joined the Roulette…
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  • Rudy Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was one of the most influential recording engineers in the history of jazz, shaping the sound of modern jazz from the 1950s through the 1970s and beyond. Trained as an optometrist, Van Gelder began recording musicians in his…

  • Vale, Jerry (1930–2014) was an American traditional pop singer best known for his smooth, Italian-influenced vocal style and a long recording career that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. Born Genaro Louis Vitaliano in the Bronx to Italian immigrant parents, Vale rose to national…

  • Tru-Glo-Town Records was a record company in Englewood founded by Trude Heller, Gloria Toote, and Ed Townsend.
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  • George McKinley Treadwell (December 21, 1918 – May 14, 1967) was a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and influential artist manager whose career bridged Harlem’s swing era and the rise of rhythm and blues in the postwar recording industry. Though he began as a working musician,…
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  • Fayrene “Faye” Lavern Johnson Treadwell was an educator, arts administrator, and pioneering music manager whose life and career moved fluidly between public service and the commercial music world of the twentieth century. Born in Arkansas, she was educated at Arkansas Baptist…
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