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McNair, Barbara

LC control no.n 91064026
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Personal name headingMcNair, Barbara
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date19340304
Death date20070204
Place of birthChicago (Ill.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
AffiliationUniversity of California, Los Angeles Motown Record Corporation Greek Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Profession or occupationSingers Entertainers Actresses
Found inHer More today than yesterday [SR] 1969: label (Barbara McNair)
IMDb, Aug. 16, 2006 (Barbara McNair; b. Mar. 4, 1934, Racine, Wis.; birth name: Barbara Joan McNair)
New York times WWW site, Feb. 6, 2007 (Barbara McNair; b. Barbara Joan McNair, Mar. 4, 1934 (some sources give the year as 1939); d. Sunday [Feb. 4, 2007], Los Angeles, aged 72; cabaret singer, actress, and television personality of the 1960s who was noted as much for her stunning appearance as for her versatile voice)
African American National Biography, accessed February 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McNair, Barbara; popular singer, nightclub entertainer, actress; born 04 March 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; studied music at the University of California, Los Angeles; released hit record Bobby, with debut single Till There Was You (1958); had a stage debut as Marge in original musical comedy The Body Beautiful (1958); performed at Los Angeles's Greek Theatre in The Merry World of Nat King Cole; signed with Motown Records, released You're Gonna Love My Baby (1965); host her own TV show, The Barbara McNair Show (1969-1971); voted by the International Society of Cosmetologists one of The World's Most Beautiful Women (1971); died 04 February 2007 in Los Angeles, California, United States)