Jazz and swing music drummer who played with the Chick Webb band, which featured the then-unknown Ella Fitzgerald.He rejected the suggestion that he should retire in 1938 when his health was rapidly failing because he knew his band needed to work after the Great Depression had wreaked havoc on the group.He has been credited for influencing music created by Duke Ellington.

BEFORE FAME

He worked as a newspaper boy. His first professional drumming gig happened when he was eleven years old.

PERSONAL LIFE

He was married to Martha Loretta Ferguson.

The meaning of the name Webb: Weaver

FUN FACTS

Drummer Chick Webb were born on Friday, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Snake, it is 3762395769 days until Chick Webb next birthday.

February 10 Horoscope.