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Benny Goodman

Clarinet Player born on

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Clarinet Player
Died
Jun 13, 1986
Zodiac
Gemini
Born in
Chicago IL
About
Bandleader and clarinetist who defined the Swing Era of music. He was appropriately known as the King of Swing.
Family
He grew up with 11 other siblings in a poor Jewish family that had immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire. He married Alice Hammond Duckworth on March 21, 1942, and they had two daughters together.

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