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Benny Carter

Saxophonist born on

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Profession
Saxophonist
Died
Jul 12, 2003
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
New York City NY
About
Award-winning jazz musician, recipient of the 1968 NEA Jazz Masters Award and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.
Family
He married his first wife in 1925, but she died from pneumonia soon after; the next three ended in divorce. He and his fifth wife, Hilma Ollila Arons, married in 1979.

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