Toni Aubin (''

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'' Maria Antoinette Rubio; 22 September 1927 – 10 February 1990) was an American jazz vocalist who sang with big bands in the 1940s.

Career

Aubin is most known as a featured singer with

Earle Spencer Robert Earle Spencer (born 26 June 1925 Welborn, Kansas – 19 September 1973 Fillmore, Utah) was an American trombonist and leader of a progressive swing big band bearing his name — Earle Spencer and His Orchestra. He formed the band in 1946 ...

and His Orchestra, with whom she began performing in 1949. Before that, from about 1946 to about 1947, she toured with the Louis Ohls Orchestra out of

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. In 1947, Aubin, while singing with the Louis Ohls Orchestra, shared a featured billing with

Art Pepper Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American jazz musician, most known as an alto saxophonist. He occasionally performed and recorded on tenor saxophone, clarinet (his first instrument) and bass clarinet. Active ...

, who, at the time, was arranger and saxophonist with the orchestra. Aubin had also sang with the Phil Carreon Big Band out of Los Angeles.

Pseudonym

Her stage name is that of the French composer

Tony Aubin Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (; 8 December 1907 – 21 September 1981) was a French composer. Life and Career Aubin was born in Paris on 8 December 1907. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (music theory ...

Family

Both of Aubin's parents – Mike Rubio ''(né'' Miguel Rubio Peña; 1882–1933) and Frances Espinosa Rubio (1891–1985) – were born in the

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region of southern

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and immigrated to the United States in 1913. Aubin (Maria Antoinette Rubio) was married from 1947 to 1949 to Howard Ansley Phillips (1929–2010), who played

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in the Spencer Orchestra from 1947 to 1949, and then settled in Las Vegas, where he would play for all of the major hotels for the next four plus decades. Ms Aubin (Rubio) gave birth to a girl in 1951, but gave her up for adoption (identity and whereabouts unknown). She also had a son, Ian Charles Phillips (born 30 Sep 1949

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), whom she raised. In 1954, she married Jack Stanley Lanning (1923–2000), they had 4 more children, 2 sons and 2 daughters. They remained married until her death.

Discography

Notes and references

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aubin, Toni 1927 births 1990 deaths Singers from California Big band singers American women jazz singers American jazz singers 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers Jazz musicians from California Earle Spencer Orchestra members