Joe Negri
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Growing up in Pittsburgh, Negri entered the entertainment world at three, playing ukulele on radio and joining the local musicians’ union before touring with Shep Fields’ orchestra in the 1940s; after a two-year Army stint he studied composition at Carnegie Mellon while performing locally and collaborating with pianist Johnny Costa on KDKA television. His long-standing influence stemmed from de…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources