Ken Darby

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As per our current Database, Ken Darby is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).

🎂 Ken Darby - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Ken Darby is 114 years, 11 months and 13 days old. Ken Darby will celebrate 115rd birthday on a Monday 13th of May 2024. Below we countdown to Ken Darby upcoming birthday.

🌙 Zodiac

Ken Darby’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Ken Darby was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.

About

Three-time Academy Award co-winner for The King and I from 1956, South Pacific from 1958, and Porgy and Bess from 1959. His choral group, The Ken Darby Singers, provided the backup vocals for Bing Crosby's original 1942 White Christmas recording.

Before Fame

He provided the vocals for the Mayor of Munchkinland in the classic The Wizard of Oz from 1939.

Trivia

He wrote The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe in 1983 as an outgrowth of his passion for author Rex Stout's legendary detective.

Family Life

He signed over the rights for composition to the Elvis Presley hit "Love Me Tender" to his wife Vera Matson.

Associated With

He was Marilyn Monroe's vocal coach on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes from 1953 and There's No Business Like Show Business from 1954.

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