Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p June Richmond (born July 9, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois; died August 14, 1962 in Gothenburg, Sweden) was an American jazz singer and actor.June Richmond is considered the first African-American jazz singer who sang regularly in a white band when she appeared in 1938, Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra. She previously worked at Les Hite in California, and after her time at Dorsey she joined Cab Calloway (1938) and then worked from 1939 to 1942 in Andy Kirk's orchestra.. }
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- June_Richmond comment "June Richmond (born July 9, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois; died August 14, 1962 in Gothenburg, Sweden) was an American jazz singer and actor.June Richmond is considered the first African-American jazz singer who sang regularly in a white band when she appeared in 1938, Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra. She previously worked at Les Hite in California, and after her time at Dorsey she joined Cab Calloway (1938) and then worked from 1939 to 1942 in Andy Kirk's orchestra.".