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Chet Baker

Occupation:
Musician, Singer
Born:
12-23-1929
Died:
05-13-1988
Remembered Best As:
American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist.
Suicide/Overdose:
Overdose

Biography

Baker was born and raised in a musical household in Yale, Oklahoma; his father, Chesney Baker, Sr., was a professional guitar player, and his mother, Vera (née Moser) was a talented pianist who worked in a perfume factory.[5] Baker began his musical career singing in a church choir. His father introduced him to brass instruments with a trombone, which was replaced with a trumpet when the trombone proved too large.

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