Umberto Alejandro Ballentino Net Worth is $1.5 Million
Umberto Alejandro Ballentino Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Herbert "Herb" Jeffries, born Umberto Alexander Valentino (September 24, 1913 – May 25, 2014), was an American jazz and popular singer and actor.In the 1940s and 1950s Jeffries recorded for a number of labels, including RCA Victor, Exclusive, Coral, Decca, Bethlehem, Columbia, Mercury and Trend. His album Jamaica, recorded by RKO, is a concept album of self-composed calypso songs.He starred in several Western feature films Harlem on the Prairie (1937), Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938), The Bronze Buckaroo (1939) and Harlem Rides the Range (1939) and acted in several other films and television shows.
[in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2008] I am colored, and I love it. I have a right to identify myself the way I do and if nobody likes it, what are they going to do? Kill my career?
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Most people come to this world by stork. I came by Flamingo, and Duke Ellington delivered me."
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The word 'black' means 'a void,' so I have never seen a black man. The word 'white' means 'lack of pigment,' so I have never seen a white man either. There's only one race: the human race.
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He learned to ride horseback on his grandfather's farm in Port Huron, Michigan.
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According to some sources, his birth name was Herbert Ironton Jeffries.
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Lived in Idyllwild, California. [February 2005]
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Lived in Idyllwild, California. [August 2008]
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Is a yogi and student of Eastern philosophies. One concert he used to do was called "The Guru" in which he blended classical and jazz with soft rock music.
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Cowboy star Buck Jones, very impressed with Jeffries, once tried to send him to South America and have him learn Spanish. His idea was for Jeffries to acquire a new name and identity while there in order for Jones to produce a series of "white" film westerns for him back in Hollywood. Jeffries refused.
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Herb's cowboy wore all-black duds and white stetson, and rode the handsome steed Stardusk.
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He directed and produced Mundo depravados (1967), a cult classic nudie mystery comedy starring his then voluptuous, exotic dancing wife, Tempest Storm. Married in 1959, they divorced not long after the movie was released. They had a daughter Patty. Another of Herb's ex-wives, Betty Allensworth, was a one-time Rose Bowl princess.
$1.5 Million
