Cab Calloway Estate Makes Deal With Warner Chappell
Calloway later went on to become the first Black artist to have a nationally-broadcast radio show, to star in the Broadway musical Porgy and Bess, and to write multiple books to define jive language and the richness of Black culture. Poet Lemn Sissay cites the singer and author as one who “was taking ownership of language for a people who, just a few generations before, had their own languages taken away.” In a statement about the new administrative deal, Warner Chappell Music co-chair/CEO Guy Moot and co-chair/COO Carianne Marshall noted Calloway’s influence on modern music and his...
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