Jimmy Durante

Genres:	Vocals
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Biography

James Francis Durante, 10 February 1893, New York City, New York, USA, d. 29 January 1980, Santa Monica, California, USA. A unique entertainer: a comedian, actor and singer whose straight-legged strut, outsize nose (which brought him the nickname "Schnozzola") and a penchant for mangling the English language ("Da hours I worked were eight to unconscious") made him a much-loved character throughout the world. The son of immigrant French-Italian parents, Durante taught himself to play ragtime on a piano his father bought him when he was 12. While in his teens he played in New York clubs and gangster hangouts, and later had his own six-piece jazz band in New Orleans.

In the early 20s Durante ran his own speakeasy, the Club Durant, with his partners, dancer and businessman Lou Clayton and song-and-dance-man Eddie Jackson. When the trio began to receive "offers that they couldn't refuse" from certain shady characters, they gave up the club and...

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