Entertainment; American Singer, Diahann Carroll is dead
Popular American singer, Diahann Carroll has been confirmed dead, after battling with cancer. Diahann Carroll died on Friday 4th-October-2019, at the age of 84. |
| US actress Diahann Carroll, who won Golden Globe and Tony awards and was nominated for an Oscar, is reportedly dead.[photo-credit: Gettyimage] |
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-Diahann Carroll was an American actress, singer, and model. She rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess.
-Diahann is one of the Oscar-nominated actresses, she was the first African American woman to star in her own TV series died on Friday October 4 at her home in Los Angeles.
-According to Late Carrol’s daughter, Suzanne Kay, who confirmed the news of her mother’s death on her Twitter page, expressed sadness over the incident, Peerielmedia9ja reports.
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‘We are sad to say goodbye to a true icon, Carrol. “The first African-American of Tony winner in a leading role, winning for her performance in No Strings in 1962.
#DiahannCarroll,” she wrote.
Diahann Carroll earned a Tony Award for the musical ‘No Strings’ and an Academy Award nomination for ‘Claudine’ during her long career.
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Late. Diahann Carroll, who made her Broadway debut at the age of 19 in the Harold Arlen musical “House of Flowers,” was best known for her pioneering work on ‘Julia.’
Carroll played Julia Baker, a nurse whose husband had been killed in Vietnam in the groundbreaking situation comedy that aired from 1968 to 1971.
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Her early recordings include “Porgy and Bess” with the Andre Previn Trio, “Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen,” “Best Beat Forward” and “Showstopper.”
Also, her later recordings include her 1978 tribute to Ethel Waters and 1997’s “The Time of My Life.”
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Carroll was married four times to four different men, firstly was to a talent manager and music producer, Monte Kay, secondly was retailer Fred Glusman, while the third was editor Robert DeLeon and lastly was singer Vic Damone.
She has a daughter, Suzanne Kay in her first marriage, who happens to be a journalist and screenwriter.
Also, she was blessed with and left behind two grandchildren August and Sydne.
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