Ray Ventura
French jazz pianist and bandleader (1908–1979)
🗓️ 16 April 1908
Raymond Ventura was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel.
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