He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
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Born:
September 7, 1956
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I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.

