Category: Apollo Theater

Categories: Harlem Renaissance | National Register of Historic Places | Manhattan, New York | New York, New York, African-American Family History

The Apollo Theater is a music hall located at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. It is a noted venue for African-American performers, and is the home of Showtime at the Apollo, a nationally syndicated television variety show which showcased new talent, from 1987 to 2008, encompassing 1,093 episodes; the show was rebooted in 2018.

The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York

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Loretta (Aiken) Mabley abt 19 Mar 1897 Brevard, Transylvania, North Carolina, United States - 23 May 1975

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Pearl Bailey 29 Mar 1918 Newport News, Warwick, Virginia, United States - 17 Aug 1990

James Brown 03 May 1933 Barnwell County, South Carolina, United States - 25 Dec 2006

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Natalie Cole 06 Feb 1950 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States - 31 Dec 2015

Samuel (Cook) Cooke 22 Jan 1931 Clarksdale, Coahoma, Mississippi, United States - 11 Dec 1964

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Samuel Davis 08 Dec 1925 Harlem, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA - 16 May 1990

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Ella Fitzgerald 25 Apr 1917 Warwick, Virginia, United States - 15 Jun 1996

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Marvin (Gay) Gaye 02 Apr 1939 Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 01 Apr 1984

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Rosetta (Hightower) Green 23 Jun 1944 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - 02 Aug 2014

Lena Horne 30 Jun 1917 Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States - 09 May 2010

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Riley King 16 Sep 1925 Berclair, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States - 14 May 2015

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Robert Marley 06 Feb 1945 Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica - 11 May 1981

Clyde McPhatter 15 Nov 1932 Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States - 13 Jun 1972

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Leonard Reed 07 Jan 1907 Oklahoma, United States - 05 Apr 2004

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Eloise Sanford 29 Aug 1917 Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States - 09 Jul 2004

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Luther Vandross 20 Apr 1951 Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States - 01 Jul 2005

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Ruth (Weston) Brown 12 Jan 1928 Portsmouth, Virginia, United States - 17 Nov 2006

Melvin White 27 Sep 1921 Baltimore, Maryland, United States - 07 Nov 1995

Clerow Wilson 08 Dec 1933 Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States - 25 Nov 1998

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