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If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

Betty Carter

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Betty Carter
Age: 68 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 16
Died: 1998
Died: September 26
Jazz Singer
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Flint
Michigan
Lillie Mae Jones
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This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
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