| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - There were, of course, other artists such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday who helped to bridge the social divide by appealing to certain sections of the general public, but it was Nat King Cole who, in the forties, became the first black performer to have his own regular radio show and in the fifties became the first to have his own regular TV show.
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