Patrick Wayne Swayze (/ˈsweɪziː/; August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. Patrick Swayze was born on August 18, 1952, in Houston, Texas, the second child of Patsy Yvonne Helen (née Karnes; 1927–2013), a choreographer, dance instructor, and dancer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze (1925–1982), an engineering draftsman.
![Julius Lorenzo Cobb Bledsoe (1897–1943)[1] was a once renowned, but now semi-forgotten baritone, and the first African-American artist to gain regular employment on Broadway, subsequent to Bert Williams, William Grant Still, Ford Dabney and others. Jules Bledsoe was born in Waco, Texas, in 1897. After graduating from Bishop College he studied at Virginia Union College and Columbia University. Waco Texas, African American Artist, American Artists, Arkansas Baptist College, Oklahoma, Ohio, Union College, Black Actors](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/97/de/bf/97debfda1d56f88ff784472682799bc3--union-university-union-college.jpg)
