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Cynthia Gooding was born on 12 August, 1924 in Rochester, Minnesota, United States, is an A 20th-century american singer. Discover Cynthia Gooding's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Occupation Singer, guitarist
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 12 August, 1924
Birthday 12 August
Birthplace Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Date of death 10 February, 1988
Died Place Kingston, New Jersey, US
Nationality United States

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1924

Cynthia Gooding (August 12, 1924 – February 10, 1988) was an American folk singer who recorded traditional songs from various countries for Elektra Records in the 1950s and 1960s.

Judy Collins wrote that she had been "inspired" by her.

She was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois.

In her late teens she lived in Mexico City, where she acquired a love of folk music and the blues, learned Spanish, and developed her talents as a singer and guitar player.

1940

On returning to the US in the mid-1940s, she moved to New York City, and—encouraged by Josh White—began singing folk songs in Greenwich Village clubs, particularly with regular appearances at the Soho club and, later, Gerdes Folk City.

Described as tall and elegant, she developed a following in New York, and her repertoire expanded to include Turkish as well as traditional English songs, and Spanish, Mexican and Italian folk songs.

1949

She married Turkish-born Hasan Özbekhan in 1949; they divorced in the late 1950s.

1953

After meeting Jac Holzman, who had recently set up Elektra Records, she recorded four 10-inch LPs for the label in 1953 and 1954.

The cover sleeves were designed by Maurice Sendak, and the albums helped establish Elektra as a source of folk and world music and allowed Holzman to expand into new business premises.

Holzman later said:"'I met Cynthia Gooding and her husband at one of those folk parties in Greenwich Village, which I sometimes describe as one of those places where there were a lot of wing chairs, candles, bullfight posters, and cheap wine. People would pass the guitar around, and it got passed to her. I was pretty impressed... She was one of the earliest artists I recorded. I remember being leery of someone not indigenous to those cultures singing those songs. I certainly knew the Moorish-Spanish connection, but I was unsure about her accent. I went to a couple of people and they said 'she's pure Castilian,' so that was okay with me. She did everything well. It was fun recording with her.'"

1956

On Friday, January 27, 1956, Gooding rented Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for $100, and presumably performed songs from her Elektra releases in the space.

She wrote in the original liner notes that she obtained the songs from various sources, including street musicians; one of the Mexican songs was "La Bamba," recorded several years before Ritchie Valens' hit version.

1957

In 1957, material from two of the 10-inch LPs was combined into a single 12-inch album, Cynthia Gooding Sings Spanish, Mexican and Turkish Folk Songs.

She also released two more LPs that year, Cynthia Gooding Sings of Faithful Lovers..., and A Young Man and A Maid: Love Songs of Many Lands, which included several duets with Theodore Bikel.

1958

She also released Languages of Love on the Riverside label in 1958, and the misleadingly titled The Best of Cynthia Gooding on the Prestige International label the following year.

1960

In about 1960, she began hosting "Folksinger's Choice", a regular radio program on WBAI in New York.

She recorded an album of nursery rhymes with Don Drake, and in the late 1960s traveled around the US as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities program.

1962

She made many recordings around Greenwich Village and elsewhere, as research and material for her shows, and in early 1962 conducted the first radio interview with Bob Dylan, before his first album was released.

Gooding toured nationally, with her two daughters, and traveled to Spain where she collected recordings of flamenco music and befriended musicians including leading

flamenco singer Juan Talega and guitarist Diego del Gastor.

1964

After returning to the US in 1964, she lived in Princeton, New Jersey.

1970

She continued to make occasional performances during the 1970s.

1988

She died of cancer in Kingston, New Jersey, in 1988, at the age of 63.