Herb Jeffries

Herbert "Herb" Jeffries "The Bronze Cowboy". Born September 24, 1913 in Detroit, Michigan - died May 25, 2014 in Woodland Hills, California was an American jazz and popular singer and actor. He was the first black man to star in an American western. He starred as a singing cowboy in several all-black Western films. Inducted into the Western Music Association Hall of Fame (1997).