Herbert "Herb" Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino, September 24, 1913) is a retired American jazz and popular singer and actor. A jazz and popular singer, he starred as a singing cowboy in several all-black Western films, in which he sang his own western compositions. Jeffries obtained financing for the first black western film and hired Spencer Williams to appear with him. In addition to starring in the film, he sang and performed his own stunts as cowboy "Bob Blake".

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