Lobo Nocho
Lobo Nocho was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on January 14th, 1919 and is the American Jazz Musician And Painter. At the age of 78, Lobo Nocho biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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After serving in the Canadian Army for some time, Nocho transferred to the United States Army just in time to see service during the 1944 Normandy landings. He eventually attained the rank of Technical Sergeant. His wife, who had remained behind in Montreal, obtained United States permanent residence through her marriage to him, and moved to New York, settling in Harlem. However, the two remained separated and fell out of contact. Nocho chose to settle in Europe after World War II ended, and in 1950 renounced his U.S. citizenship to become a French citizen.
Nocho enjoyed various professional successes in Europe, working as a jazz singer for Paris, Malta, and Rome nightclubs to earn a living while also continuing to paint, making him one of a number of African Americans in France pursuing careers in the arts in those years. By a year after the war ended he had found a regular gig at Schubert's club in Montparnasse, singing in both English and French. In 1952 he appeared at Jean's Intrigue in Paris, performing alongside fellow African-American émigré Aaron Bridgers. In September 1962, a Paris court found him guilty of smoking marijuana, and fined him NF500.
In 1971, Nocho visited New York City to watch Hazel Scott play piano in a fashion show, in which singer Freda Payne also appeared, and reminisced with them about African Americans in the Paris music scene in the 1950s. David Amram would later praise him as "one of the finest jazz singers I had heard in Paris", also noting his skills on the drums and in dance and his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz music. A book of Nocho's poetry was published by Vantage Press at the beginning of September 1997. He died just days later and was buried at the Calverton National Cemetery in Suffolk County, New York.