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I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

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Ed Speleers
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: April 7
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