Name: | Art Laboe |
Net Worth: | $8 million – $11 million |
Date Of Birth: | August 7, 1925 |
Place Of Birth: | Salt Lake City, UT |
Professions: | Radio personality |
Organization founded: | Original Sound |
Songwriting partners: | Preston Epps, Sandy Nelson |
Nationality: | American, Armenian |
Art Laboe Dead
Art Laboe, a pioneering DJ who is credited with aiding in Southern California’s desegregation, has passed away. He was 97.
According to Joanna Morones, a spokeswoman for Laboe’s production company, Dart Entertainment, Laboe passed away on Friday night from pneumonia.
The final episode of Laboe was produced last week and broadcast on Sunday night.
Laboe is credited with helping in the desegregation of Southern California by hosting live DJ shows at drive-ins, which drew white, black, and Latino rock-n-roll dances and shocked the older generation still listening. music by Frank Sinatra and Big Band.
His radio shows in particular provided families of incarcerated loved ones with a platform to speak with their relatives by dedicating songs to them and sending them heartfelt messages and updates. Inmates from California and Arizona were sending in their own dedications and asking Laboe for updates on the family.
His radio shows, in particular, provided a platform for families of incarcerated loved ones to communicate with their relatives by dedicating songs to them and sending heartfelt messages and updates. Inmates from California and Arizona were sending in their own dedications and requesting updates on the family from Laboe.