Charlie Bird
Sign in to saveAlso known as Charles "Charlie" Bird, Charles Bird, Charles Brown Bird
Irish journalist and broadcaster
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Vinony's link graph records 172 inbound references to Charlie Bird, and connects out to Daily Mirror, RTÉ News and Current Affairs and United States.
It sits within the topics 1949 births, 2024 deaths and 20th-century Irish people.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Expanding the Borders of Zion
- Time and Tide
- Climb with Charlie
- Day in May
- Without the Mask
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1920-08-29
- Active to
- 1955-03-12
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 133,611
- Total plays
- 959,174
Tags
Charles L. Byrd (September 16, 1925 - November 30, 1999), better known as Charlie Byrd, was a famous jazz guitarist, born in Suffolk, Virginia. He was the only jazz guitarist of that era whose primary instrument was the classical guitar which gave him his uniquely identifiable sound. Byrd primarily looked up to Django Reinhardt. He moved to Washington, D.C., to study classical guitar with the renowned Sophocles Papas. He later moved to Italy where he studied with Andrés Segovia. <a href="https:
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Bird
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Sandymount
- Occupation
- opinion journalist
- Political party
- Workers' Party of Ireland
- Languages spoken
- Irish
- Field of work
- journalism
- Image
- Charlie Bird crop.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Charlie Bird
- date of birth
- 1949-09-09
- date of death
- 2024-03-11
- social media followers
- 53420
- cause of death
- ALS
- name in native language
- Charlie Bird
- manner of death
- natural causes
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