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Birthday
April 16, 1908
Day of Death
1979-03-29
(70 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens
Ray Ventura et son Orchestre
Raymond Ventura
l'Orchestre Ray Ventura
Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s.
His nephew was singer Sacha Distel. Ventura was born to a Jewish family. In 1925 he was the pianist for the Collegiate Five, which recorded as the Collegians for Columbia beginning in 1928 and for Decca in the 1930s.
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