Borrah minevitch biography of barack
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Borrah minevitch biography of barack
Borrah Minevitch
Borrah Minevitch | |
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| Born | Boruch Minewitz (1902-11-05)November 5, 1902 Minsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | June 26, 1955(1955-06-26) (aged 52) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, comic entertainer, bandleader |
| Years active | 1920s–1955 |
Borrah Minevitch (born Boruch Minewitz; November 5, 1902–June 26, 1955) was a Russian-American harmonica player, comic entertainer, entrepreneur, and leader of his group The Harmonica Rascals.
Life and career
He was born in the village of Borovino near Minsk, in the Russian Empire (now Belarus). He moved with his parents and six siblings to the United States in 1906, and settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where his mother set up a guest house after her husband died unexpectedly.
Borrah sold newspapers, learned to play piano, violin and harmonica, and at the age of eighteen moved to New York City to study, while also working in a shoe shop and performing on his chromatic harmonica