83-year old Petula Clark is touring and releasing an album this fall. So what active artists (lets define “active” as releasing a recording/playing multiple concert dates within the last two years)are older than Miss Clark? And what are the oldest acts to record or tour ever?
Tony Bennett is 89 and won a Grammy this year.
Christopher Lee released his fourth heavy metal album, The Omens of Death on his 91st birthday.
Lee died last year, but all things considered, I wouldn’t assume that removes him from the list of active artists.
Portuguese director Manoel Oliveira is listed as active up until he was 106 (he died at 107).
How many recordings or concert dates did he do after he turned 100? Or before, for that matter?
Chuck Berry is 89 (90 in October) and still performs live, though not nearly as often as he used to.
Fats Domino is 88, but I can’t find any indication that he still performs live.
aack! you stole my thunder!
The great Marshall Allen, saxophonist and leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra, is 92.
One of the original swing/bebop drumming cool cats Roy Haynes is 91.
brazen hijack: ok nothing at all to do with music recording/performing artists, but how can you not mention 94 y.o. Carl Riener.:o
ya gotta love’im!
According to this site, it may be Vera Lynn. 'She is also the only artist to have had a song on the first music chart in the UK and to still have charted music in the 21st century.
Jimmy Carter of the Blind Boys of Alabama has to be a contender. I can’t find his age online, but he’s got to be in the ballpark of 90.
Les Paul used to regularly perform live, up until a few weeks before his death at 94. He won two Grammys at age 90.