Nov 13, 2010

Andy Griffith is one of the most beloved actors in American entertainment; although “The Andy Griffith Show” stopped production in 1967, the show remains on the air as a favorite of each succeeding generation. Andy Griffith was born in Mount Airy, North Carolina on June 1, 1926. He began acting in high school plays and learned to...

Oct 3, 2009

You know him as Randy Travis but he was born Randy Bruce Traywick on May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina. During the mid-1980s, a group of young performers changed the course of country music by recording songs with a retro sound that harkened back to the traditional sound of country music from the 1940s and 1950s. Randy Travis was...

Oct 3, 2009

Born on February 10, 1937 in Asheville, North Carolina. Roberta Flack was born into a musical family; her mother was a church organist and her father was a jazz musician. She grew up in Arlington, Virginia and studied classical piano; at 15 she won a scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C. where she studied piano and voice...

Oct 3, 2009

James Taylor grew up in Carrboro, North Carolina, where his father was a faculty member and then Dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. James’s first music lessons were on the cello before he switched to the guitar. The Taylor family spent summer vacations on Martha’s Vineyard and in 1961 James attended...

Oct 3, 2009

John Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina; died on July 17, 1967 in New York City. John Coltrane is one of the most important–and controversial–individuals in the history of jazz. Many consider the saxophonist a father figure in the development of avante garde jazz and his recordings during the...