Toni Aubin | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Maria Antoinette Rubio |
Born | Antioch, California, U.S. | September 22, 1927
Died | February 10, 1990 San Joaquin, California | (aged 62)
Genres | Vocal jazz, swing |
Occupation(s) | Singer |
Instrument(s) | Vocals |
Years active | 1947–1950 |
Labels | Black & White |
Toni Aubin (
née Maria Antoinette Rubio; 22 September 1927 – 10 February 1990) was an American jazz vocalist who sang with big bands in the 1940s.
Aubin is most known as a featured singer with Earle Spencer and His Orchestra, [1] with whom she began performing in 1949. Before that, from about 1946 to about 1947, she toured with the Louis Ohls Orchestra [a] out of Arkadelphia.
In 1947, Aubin, while singing with the Louis Ohls Orchestra, [2] shared a featured billing with Art Pepper, who, at the time, was arranger and saxophonist with the orchestra. [2] Aubin had also sang with the Phil Carreon Big Band out of Los Angeles.
Her stage name is that of the French composer Tony Aubin.
Both of Aubin's parents – Mike Rubio (né Miguel Rubio Peña; 1882–1933) and Frances Espinosa Rubio (1891–1985) – were born in the Andalusia region of southern Spain and immigrated to the United States in 1913. [3] Aubin (Maria Antoinette Rubio) was married from 1947 to 1949 to Howard Ansley Phillips (1929–2010), who played baritone saxophone in the Spencer Orchestra from 1947-49, 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) [4] 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 Pasadena, California), 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.
Black & White 875
"Sunday Afternoon" has been re-issued in the following compilations: