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Comment by Roberta Windle on April 23, 2015 at 10:09pm

Farwell Chizmo. Will be missed by all who knew and loved you. You were a true entertainer in every sense of the word. RIP. 

Comment by Anthony (Tony) Janflone on April 23, 2015 at 7:53pm

 I was just talking about Chizmo last night. When I woke up this morning the Sky was crying. Now I know why. They say Chizmo could work a room; that's because he loved all people. Chiz, I will love and miss you till we meet again, in the arms of Jesus, our Lord.

Comment by Michele Bensen on April 23, 2015 at 6:28pm

RIP Chizmo Charles

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2015/04/22/Chizmo-Charl...

Comment by Dr. Nelson Harrison on April 14, 2015 at 2:41am

http://livestream.com/Abyssinian/events/3952714/videos/83444780

Comment by Michele Bensen on April 10, 2015 at 7:36am

Singer, songwriter, Sandy Mason Theoret died Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in her home in Ormond Beach, Fla., from pancreatic cancer. She was 75.

Ms. Theoret grew up in Tarentum and was “discovered” at 11 when she entered a televised talent show with her ventriloquism act.

She toured clubs with her “dummy,” Tommy, eventually getting booked into venues in Chicago and New York, said her cousin, Rick Shaw, 52, of Ormond Beach.

After graduating from Tarentum High School and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, she became a co-host with musician Joe Negri on WTAE's “Popeye and Friends.” The children's show ran from 1965-68 and allowed her to continue her ventriloquist act with Tommy and another dummy, Granny.

http://triblive.com/obituaries/newsstories/8130107-74/theoret-music...

Comment by Anthony (Tony) Janflone on January 5, 2015 at 10:12pm

So sorry to hear of Hosea's passing. He was a fun guy. We worked quite a few gigs together. Rest in the Arms of God brother.

Comment by Melissa Jones on January 5, 2015 at 1:40pm

January 5, 2015 (Monday):  WKCR will be broadcasting a BUDDY DEFRANCO MEMORIAM on Monday, January 5, 2015 from 12 Noon to 3pm ET.
This DeFranco memorial is on WKCR at 89.9 FM in NYC and via the Internet at WKCR.org."

Comment by tim max on July 12, 2013 at 2:19am

hugs to all

Comment by Pgh Rich on December 12, 2012 at 6:04am

By Associated Press,
Published: December 11 |
Updated: Wednesday, December 12, 12:28 AM

AP: Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar virtuoso, dies at 92

Ravi Shankar, the Grammy Award-winning Indian sitar musician and father of jazz-pop musician Norah Jones, has died, AP reports.

Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers in the West discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music over an eight-decade career. Beatle George Harrison labeled him “the godfather of world music.”

NEW DELHI — Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over a 10-decade career, died Tuesday. He was 92.

A statement on the musician’s website said he died in San Diego, near his Southern California home. The musician’s foundation issued a statement saying that he had suffered upper respiratory and heart problems and had undergone heart-valve replacement surgery last week.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also confirmed his death and called Shankar a “national treasure.”

Labeled “the godfather of world music” by George Harrison, Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music.

He also pioneered the concept of the rock benefit with the 1971 Concert For Bangladesh. To later generations, he was known as the estranged father of popular American singer Norah Jones.

His last musical performance was with his other daughter, sitarist Anoushka Shankar Wright, on Nov. 4 in Long Beach, California; his foundation said it was to celebrate his 10th decade of creating music. The multiple Grammy winner learned that he had again been nominated for the award the night before his surgery.

As early as the 1950s, Shankar began collaborating with and teaching some of the greats of Western music, including violinist Yehudi Menuhin and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. He played well-received shows in concert halls in Europe and the United States, but faced a constant struggle to bridge the musical gap between the West and the East.

Describing an early Shankar tour in 1957, Time magazine said. “U.S. audiences were receptive but occasionally puzzled.”

His close relationship with Harrison, the Beatles lead guitarist, shot Shankar to global stardom in the 1960s.

Harrison had grown fascinated with the sitar, a long necked, string instrument that uses a bulbous gourd for its resonating chamber and resembles a giant lute. He played the instrument, with a Western tuning, on the song “Norwegian Wood,” but soon sought out Shankar, already a musical icon in India, to teach him to play it properly.

The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison’s house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California.

Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, Harrison recorded the Indian-inspired song “Within You Without You” on the Beatles’ ”Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” helping spark the raga-rock phase of 60s music and drawing increasing attention to Shankar and his work.

Shankar’s popularity exploded, and he soon found himself playing on bills with some of the top rock musicians of the era. He played a four-hour set at the Monterey Pop Festival and the opening day of Woodstock.

Comment by WaltSimsJr on January 24, 2012 at 4:33pm

http://www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/artists_programs/FAJE/FAJE_g...

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