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Louis Armstrong (1904-2971): He is one of the most recognizable musicians of the Harlem Renaissance for his major effect on swing and the big band sound.
famous for his improvisation, gravelly voice, and bending of lyrics.
One of the first African-American entertainers to “cross over”, whose skin color was secondary to his music, he did not publicly politicize his race and was considered “socially acceptable”
Billie Holiday (1915-1959): Billie Holiday had a rough childhood, her mother took “transportation jobs”, and she frequently skipped school, was sent to a Catholic reform school, worked long hours as a, underwent an attempted rape by her neighbor, and ran errands for a brothel, all when she was just a child
Was a jazz singer, songwriter, and actress whose vocal style pioneered new ways of manipulating phrasing and tempo
Her voice also included a raspy sound. Holiday said that she always wanted her voice to sound like an instrument and some of her influences were Louis Armstrong and singer Bessie Smith.
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William Henry Johnson (1901-1970): was born in 1901 in Florence, South Carolina. After deciding to pursue his dreams as an artist, he attended the National Academy of Design in New York and met his mentor, Charles Webster Hawthorne
He used a primitive style of painting in conjunction with what was considered a "folk" style, using of bright colors and two-dimensional figures .
Johnson addressed his own sense of racial and cultural belonging to the "folk," and how this kinship with people who are bound to nature can result in an art that expresses a traditional, spiritual essence.
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998):was the only African-American female painter of the 1930s and 1940s to achieve fame abroad, and the earliest whose subjects extend beyond the realm of portraiture
She was unique for her bright colors, her personal understanding of Cubism's basic principles impressionist techniques, and her richly patterned, and brilliantly colored style
Jones felt that her greatest contribution to the art world was "proof of the talent of black artists."
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue"
As a radical democrat, he believed that art should be accessible to as many people as possible. He could sometimes be bitter, but his art is generally suffused by a keen sense of the ideal and by a profound love of humanity, especially black Americans
" He was perhaps the most original of African American poets and, in the breadth and variety of his work, assuredly the most representative of African American writers"
Zora Hurston (1891-1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
At the time of her death in 1960, Hurston had published more books than any other black woman in America, she was unable to capture a mainstream audience in her lifetime, and she died poor and alone
in a welfare hotel
Living in Harlem in the 1920s, Hurston befriended the likes of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, among several others. Her apartment, according to some accounts, was a popular spot for social gatherings