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Toots Thielemans
Belgian jazz musician (1922–2016)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 April 1922
- Died
- 22 August 2016
- Place of birth
- Marolles - Marollen
- Place of death
- Braine-l'Alleud
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Jean-Baptiste, Frédéric, Isidor
- Family name
- Thielemans
- Genre
- jazz
- Field of work
- jazz
- Occupation
- composer, jazz guitarist, harmonicist, film score composer, whistle artist, voice actor, musician, jazz musician, music teacher
- Citizenship
- Belgium, United States
- Native language
- Dutch
- Awards
- Paul Acket Award, octave d'honneur, NEA Jazz Masters, In Honorem - interprète, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bronze Zinneke, Commander of the Order of Leopold, Knight of the Order of Leopold II, Commander of the Order of Rio Branco
- birth name
- Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor Thielemans
- date of burial or cremation
- 27 August 2016
- educated at
- Free University of Brussels
- end of work period
- 2014
- instrument
- chromatic harmonica, guitar, violin
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidore, baron Thielemans
- noble title
- baron
- partner in business or sport
- Marette de Vet
- place of burial
- La Hulpe Communal Cemetery
- pseudonym
- Toots Thielemanns
- record label
- Riverside, Columbia Records, Polydor Records, Philips Records, ABC Records
- start of work period
- 1954
- topic's main category
- Category:Toots Thielemans
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