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  • Gene Lees
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  • Male
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  • 2010 deaths
  • Berklee College of Music alumni
  • 1928 births
  • 20th-century Canadian singers
  • 20th-century translators
  • Canadian expatriates in the United States
  • Canadian radio personalities
  • Canadian singer-songwriters
  • Canadian memoirists
  • Jazz writers
  • Lyricists
  • 20th-century Canadian novelists
  • Canadian male novelists
  • Canadian biographers
  • Canadian journalists
  • Canadian music critics
  • Canadian music journalists
  • Canadian translators
  • Writers from Hamilton, Ontario
abstract
  • Gene Lees (Born: Hamilton, Ontario, February 8, 1928 - Died: Ojai, California, April 22, 2010) was a Canadian writer, lyricist, singer, composer, radio & television broadcaster. He was an editor at Down Beat magazine and later at Stereo Review and High Fidelity.
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  • Frederick Eugene John %22Gene%22 Lees (February 8, 1928 – April 22, 2010) was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and former journalist. Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States, where he was a music critic and lyricist. His lyrics for Antonio Carlos Jobim's %22Corcovado%22 (released as %22Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars%22), have been recorded by such notable singers as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Queen Latifah, and Diana Krall. Lees married his wife Janet in 1971.
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  • 1928-02-08
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  • 2010-04-22
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  • Gene Lees
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