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Gershon Kingsley
Sign in to saveAlso known as Götz Gustav Ksinski, Götz Ksinski, Gotz Gustav Ksinski, Gotz Ksinski
American composer and musician (1922–2019)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- God and Abraham
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1922-10-28
- Active to
- 2019-12-10
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 42,531
- Total plays
- 296,385
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Gershon Kingsley was born Goetz Gustav Ksinski in Bochum, Westfalia, Germany on October 28th, 1922 (died on December 10th, 2019 in NYC). He grew up in Berlin, but fled to Palestine in 1938 because of the rise of Nazism. Separated from his family at age 15, Kingsley lived and worked on a kibbutz (a cooperative farm) in a land that would become Israel. Here, he became a self-taught pianist and later performed with local jazz bands around Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. He is probably most famous for his
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bochum
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Popcorn
- Genre
- crossover
- Instrument
- synthesizer
- Official website
- www.gershonkingsley.com/index.html
- Image
- GershonKingsley.jpg
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- end of work period
- 2017-00-00
- P8168
- Alamo
- date of birth
- 1922-10-28
- birth name
- Götz Gustav Ksinski
- name in native language
- Gershon Kingsley
- pseudonym
- Gershon Kingsley
- name in kana
- キングズリー
- start of work period
- 1954-00-00
- date of death
- 2019-12-10
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Gershon Kingsley
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