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Jesse Stone was born on this date in He was a Black band leader, songwriter, and music producer. He began performing in his family's touring minstrel show when he was five.

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During the s, Stone led a jazz band that included saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. Stone became a staff arranger, composer, and comedy writer at the Apollo Theater. In the late s, he joined the Atlantic Records staff as a producer, songwriter, and arranger. During that decade, Stone wrote "Idaho," played by Guy Lombardo, and sold three million copies.

Stone understood the racism in the industry and knew that only the talent of Black Americans in music would break the color barrier with the white artists playing Black music.

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Stone decided that this band was the one to do it. The single sold a million copies, peaking at number seven pop on Billboard's charts during the summer of and assisting in the acceptance of "Negro music" by white audiences. To Become a Musician or Singer. Song Hall. Gary Hines is a Grammy-winning musician, producer, and Sounds of Blackness founder.

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