Joseph McLaughlin, 23 March 1917, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, d. 14 October 1999, Clane, Co. Kildare, Eire. An extremely popular ballad singer in the UK from the 40s through to the 60s, with an impressive tenor voice and substantial stage presence, Locke sang in local churches as a child, and, when he was 16, added two years to his age in order to enlist in the Irish Guar
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Ernst Seifert, 16 May 1891, Linz, Austria-Hungary, d. 8 January 1948, London, England. After enjoying a successful career in Europe as a star of opera and operetta, Tauber went to England in 1933 at the time of Nazi ascendancy. In Vienna, Tauber had his greatest success with Das Land Des Lächelns (1929), in which he sang Franz Lehárs Das Ist Mein Ganz
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1956, Priesthill, Glasgow, Scotland. Although unable to read or write music, John McDermott has done much to keep traditional Celtic music alive in Canada, where he moved as a nine-year old child. Despite having a musical father, to whom he dedicated his 1995 album, Love Is A Voyage, McDermott never considered singing a viable career when he was a young man. Instead, he beca
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