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- Miles Davis
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- May 26, 1926
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- 100 years
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- Gemini
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- 🇺🇸 United States
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- Actor
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Biography
Miles Davis is 100 years old, an actor, from United States.
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In a career spanning nearly five decades, Davis was at the forefront of several major stylistic developments in jazz, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, third stream, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, and jazz fusion. His legacy extends into rock, funk, classical, and hip-hop.
Born into an upper class family in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis started on the trumpet in his early teens.
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