Biography
Irving Berlin was born in 1888 as Israel Beilin in Tyumen, Russia, and emigrated as a child to the USA. He became the most prolific and popular songwriter of America with over a thousand songs. His musicals Annie Get Your Gun and Call Me Madam, and songs like White Christmas and God Bless America are firmly anchored in American culture. Berlin, who could not read music, died in 1989 in New York at the age of 101.
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