Fats Waller
American jazz pianist and composer (1904–1943)
Biography
Thomas Wright Waller was born in New York City in 1904 and worked as a jazz pianist, organist, composer, and singer. He developed innovations in the stride style that influenced other musicians. During the jazz age and swing era, he performed internationally and achieved success in the United States and Europe. His songs "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose" were later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. He died in 1943.
Occupation
Fats Waller is recorded as a jazz musician, a bandleader, a songwriter, a pianist, a singer, a conductor and a composer, born in New York (1904–1943).
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