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Les Brown
Les Brown may refer to: * Les Brown (bandleader) (1912–2001), American big band leader * Les Brown (politician) (born 1945), American author, motivational speaker, and former Ohio politician ** ''The Les Brown Show Leslie Calvin Brown (born February 17, 1945) is an American politician and motivational speaker. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981. Early life Brown was born with his twin brother, Wesley, in Liberty City ...'', a 1993 talk show hosted by him * Les Brown (American football) (born 1987), NFL tight end * Les Brown (journalist) (1928–2013), American journalist See also * Leslie Brown (other) * Leslie Browne (born 1957), American ballet dancer and actress * Les Battersby-Brown, fictional character in British soap-opera ''Coronation Street'' {{hndis, Brown, Les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Brown (bandleader)
Lester Raymond Brown (March 14, 1912 – January 4, 2001) was an American jazz musician who for over six decades (1938-2000) led his big band, later called Les Brown and His Band of Renown. Biography Brown was born in Reinerton-Orwin-Muir, Pennsylvania, Reinerton, Pennsylvania. He enrolled in the Conway Military Band School (later part of Ithaca College) in 1926, studying with famous bandleader Patrick Conway for three years before receiving a music scholarship to the New York Military Academy, where he graduated in 1932. Brown attended college at Duke University from 1932 to 1936. There he led the group Duke Ambassadors, Les Brown and His Blue Devils, who performed regularly on Duke's campus and up and down the east coast. Brown took the band on an extensive summer tour in 1936. At the end of the tour, while some of the band members returned to Duke to continue their education, others stayed on with Brown and continued to tour, becoming in 1938 the Les Brown Orchestra. The band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Brown (politician)
Leslie Calvin Brown (born February 17, 1945) is an American politician and motivational speaker. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981. Early life Brown was born with his twin brother, Wesley, in Liberty City, a low-income section of Miami, Florida. He was adopted by Mamie Brown, a 38-year-old single woman who worked as a cafeteria attendant and domestic assistant. Brown claims that he was declared "educable mentally retarded" in grade school, which damaged his self-esteem and confidence. Professional life According to many of Brown's speeches, when he first decided to get his life into order, he went to a radio station he was repeatedly unsuccessful with his speeches. It was only after the on-air failures of the previous afternoon DJ that he was hired full-time. Upon his termination from the radio station, he ran for election in the Ohio House of Representatives and won. After leaving the Ohio State Legislature, he shifted his career to te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Brown (American Football)
Les Brown V is a former American football tight end for the FXFL Blacktips of the Fall Experimental Football League (FXFL). An undrafted free agent prior to 2012, Brown was signed and subsequently released by the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL) during the offseason, as was documented in the 2012 season of documentary television series '' Hard Knocks.'' Prior to joining the Dolphins, Brown was a finance student and college basketball player. High school and college Brown attended Judge Memorial and Highland high schools in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he played basketball, football, and baseball. As a junior, Brown was an all-state wide receiver, leading the state of Utah in regular season TD receptions. Brown was recruited and had scholarship opportunities in all three sports, including invites at BYU, Oregon, and Washington State to play football. Brown made the decision to play basketball at Westminster College and pursue a degree in finance. Brown, a 6†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Brown (journalist)
Lester Louis Brown (20 December 1928 - 4 November 2013) was an American "pioneer in television journalism". He was also a publisher and book author, with topics reporting on the business of television. He founded a magazine called ''Channels of Communications'' in 1981. Family and childhood Early life Brown was born in Indiana Harbor, East Chicago, Indiana, on 20 December 1928. He was a first generation American of Polish-German Jewish descent. His parents, Irving H. Brown and Helen Feigenbaum, migrated to the United States shortly before the First World War. His father ran a store and Brown grew up with his sisters, Marion and Anita. He was the first of his family to attend college, graduating from Roosevelt University. Family He met Jean Rosalie Slaymaker when she was working at the ''Chicago Sun Times''. They had their first child, Jessica, in 1960. He moved the family in 1965 to settle in Larchmont, New York, where they had two more children, Joshua and Rebecca. Journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Brown (other)
Leslie Brown may refer to: * Leslie Brown (RAF officer) (1893–1978), Royal Air Force officer who served in World War II * Leslie Brown (historian) (1954–2016), American historian * Leslie E. Brown (1920–1997), U.S. Marine aviator * Leslie Brown (bishop) (1912–1999), Archbishop of Uganda * Leslie C. Brown (born 1945), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives * Leslie Brown (bowls), Fijian bowls player, medallist at 1950 British Empire Games * Leslie Brown (English footballer) (1936–2021), English football midfielder * Leslie Hilton Brown (1917–1980), British ornithologist * Darby Brown (1929–1988, born Leslie Brown), Australian boxer of the 1940s and 1950s * Leslie Brown (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer of the 1950s See also * * Leslie Browne Leslie Browne (born June 29, 1957) is an American prima ballerina and actress. She was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York City from 1986 until 1993. She was also nominated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Browne
Leslie Browne (born June 29, 1957) is an American prima ballerina and actress. She was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York City from 1986 until 1993. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a Golden Globe Award at age 20, for portraying a young dancer invited to join a large New York ballet company in '' The Turning Point'' (1977). Personal life She was born in New York, the daughter of dancers Isabel Mirrow (1928-2014) and Kelly Kingman Brown (1928-1981). Her middle name, Sue, was the name of her maternal grandmother, Sue Brown, a respected dance teacher in Mississippi. The late Nora Kaye and Herbert Ross were her godparents. She has two brothers and one sister; her brother Kevin is a film producer. At the age of seven she began dancing, and trained at her father's studio in Arizona, along with her brother Ethan and her sister Elizabeth. She earned a scholarship to study at the School of American Ballet, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |