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Toby Beau. Toby Beau is an American band from Texas, formed in the early 1970s and perhaps best known for the 1978 hit single, "My Angel Baby". The band is still in existence today and continues to perform on the club circuit. The band's name was based from one of the last original wooden shrimp boats docked in the Gulf Coast community of Port ...
Padre Island is the largest of the Texas barrier islands and the world's longest barrier island. The island is located along Texas's southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico and is noted for its white sandy beaches. Meaning father in Spanish, it was named after Father José Nicolás Ballí (c.1770-1829), who owned the island and served as a ...
Rosina Ferrara. Charles Sprague Pearce, Study, Rosina, Capri, 1880. Rosina Ferrara (1861–1934) was an Italian artist's model from the island of Capri, [ 1] who became the favorite muse of American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent. Captivated by her exotic beauty, a variety of 19th-century artists, including Charles Sprague Pearce, Frank ...
The population was 2,066 at the 2020 census. The town is located on South Padre Island, a barrier island with the Laguna Madre situated to the leeward of the island and the Gulf of Mexico on the windward flank, along the Texas Gulf Coast. South Padre Island is accessible via the Queen Isabella Causeway from the town of Port Isabel.
Seymour Jonathan Singer (1924–2017), cell biologist and author. John Singer (homeschooler) (1931–1979), American killed in a standoff over homeschooling. John Singer (actor) (1923–1987), English actor. John Webb Singer (1819-1904), British businessman. John Singer, a mute character in Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ...
Singer was born in New York City. His parents, who were German immigrants, returned to Dresden in 1932, where his father was a Nazi and joined the Schutzstaffel. Singer himself joined the Hitler Youth, an experience which led him to become racist, but hate regimentation. Singer's mother was Mormon but her husband forbade her from practicing her ...
North Padre Island is a barrier island along the coast of Texas. It and South Padre Island were formed after the creation of the Port Mansfield Channel split Padre Island in two. From north to south, North Padre Island is located in parts of Nueces, Kleberg, Kenedy, and Willacy counties. The northernmost part of the island to the Kleberg County ...
Myrta Silva – Puerto Rican singer and composer of guarachas as well as television hostess and producer; Brenda K. Starr – American singer-songwriter; Jewish American father, Puerto Rican mother [97] Olga Tañon – Puerto Rican singer; resident of Orlando, Florida [98] Juan Tizol (1900–1984) – Puerto Rican trombonist and composer