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Irving Berlin

Born:
May 11, 1888 in Tumen, the Russian Empire
Occupation:
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter, Play Author
Birth name:
Israel Isidore Baline
Biography:
Everyone is fond of quoting Jerome Kern's famous assessment that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music." Remarkably, this tribute was made in the mid-1930s, at a point in time when Berlin had already been writing songs for nearly three decades, and still had three more...Read More

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