Actor

Ray Ventura

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Movies: 28Series: 3Crew credits: 21

TMDB ID: 1289619

IMDb ID: nm0893364

Known for: Production

Born: April 16, 1908

Died: March 29, 1979

Age: 70

Place of birth: Paris, France

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1935 - 1991

Years active: 57

Average TMDB rating: 5.98

Wikidata: Q513644

Also known as

Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens • Ray Ventura et son Orchestre • Raymond Ventura • l'Orchestre Ray Ventura

Other jobs

Producer (17)Orchestrator (2)Music (1)Musician (1)

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Biography

Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel. Ventura was born to a Jewish family. In 1925 he was the pianist for the Collegiate Five, which recorded as the Collegians for Columbia beginning in 1928 and for Decca in the 1930s. A year later he led the band, and it became a dance orchestra resembling a big band. His sidemen included Alix Combelle, Philippe Brun, and Guy Paquinet. In the early 1940s he led a big band in South America and in France during the rest of the decade. One of his band's popular songs from 1936 was "Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise" in which the Marquise is told by her servants that everything is fine at home except for a series of escalating calamities. It was seen as a metaphor for France's obliviousness to the approaching war. Source: Article "Ray Ventura" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.