Lew Dockstader
Lew Dockstader( August 7, 1856 – October 26, 1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface minstrel show performer.
Dockstader performed as a solo act and in his own a popular minstrel troupe.
Cornelius J. O'Brien
Cornelius J. O'Brien (1869 - January 14, 1954) was known professionally as Neil O'Brien.
He was a vaudeville performer and a minstrel show performer.
He worked with Lew Dockstader.
Lynn Shackelford
Lynn Shackelford( born August 27, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player.
A graduate of John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California, Shackelford earned 7 varsity letters in 3 years in basketball, baseball and golf.
He was the CIF Player of the Year in basketball in 1965 for the Southern California Section.
A 6'5" forward, Shackelford played college basketball at UCLA under legendary coach John Wooden.
He was one of only 4 players to have started on 3 NCAA championship teams( 67, 68, 69).
The others are Lew Alcindor, Curtis Rowe and Henry Bibby.
He complemented his teammates as a dead eye pure shooter; most of his shots would be 3 pointers today.
Shackelford played one season in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Miami Floridians.
He was later a broadcaster for ESPN, CBS, and NBC.
Additionally he spent 7 seasons broadcasting all Los Angeles Lakers games with Chick Hearn.
He worked on the crew of the American game show" Almost Anything Goes".
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Les C. Copeland
Leslie C. Copeland( June 4, 1887 – March 3, 1942) was an American composer and pianist.
As a boy, he played in Lew Dockstader's minstrel troupe, the Lew Dockstader Minstrels.
He later sold ragtime compositions to Jerome H. Remick and others.
Some of his performances are preserved on piano rolls.
He died in San Francisco, California.
Rafael Negrete
Rafael Jorge Negrete, is a Mexican actor and Opera singer, who also performs traditional Mexican music.
Rafa Negrete, as often called, is the grandson of the Mexican legendary icon Jorge Negrete Negrete is a tenor.
but also he has sung various baritone roles.
He is a graduate from the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, in Mexico( Mexican National Conservatory of Music).
and also studied at The University for Music and Dramatic Art Mozarteum, in Salzburg, Austria.
Furthermore, he studied vocal technique in Mexico with Enrique Jaso and Maria Luisa Tamez, later with tenor Alfredo Portilla and coach James Demster.
He has also taken master- class in Italy with soprano Francesca Scaini Negrete follows the tradition of El Charro Cantor, by disseminating Mexican music throughout the world but he keeps an active schedule of performances of either Traditional Mexican Music or Bel Canto, and his talent is always well recognized in both facets
He has performed in major venues of many countries with great acceptance, including a great number of concerts on his own, in Mexico.
For instance, he has performed in Teatro Bicentenario( Bicentennial Theater in Texcoco); Teatro Aguascalientes; Auditorio Zaragoza; Museo Nacional de las Artes( National Museum of Arts); Sala Ponce, del Palacio de Bellas Artes( Ponce Hall at Palace of Fine Arts); Lunario, Auditorio Nacional( National Auditorium), Alcazar del Castillo de Chapultepec( Imperial Residence Room, in Chapultepec Castle); Centro Nacional de las Artes( National Center for the Arts); Zócalo Capitalino( Mexico City Main Square); Teatro de la Paz( De la Paz Theater) Auditorio Silvestre Revueltas; Auditorio Juan Rulfo; CECUT( Tijuana's Cultural Center); Hipódromo de las Américas( Mexico's largest racecourse venue); Centro Voilá, Antara among many others.
In the United States, Negrete has had presentations throughout the Nation, in different events, such as Mariachi Conferences, Fairs and Festivals, as well as tenor performances.
Negrete has performed in various cities of the state of California, including Santa Ana, Lindwood Los Angeles, and others.
In 2004, he was the leading performer of The North Carolina, Charlotte's Latin American Festival.
In 2013 he was a special guess/ leading performer at the closing concert" Noche de Estrellas" in Tucson, Arizona.
Negrete has participated for three consecutive years, 2012, 2013 and 2014, in the" Chicago Mariachi and Tequila Festival".
In December 2009, he performed at the traditional, New Year's Eve Concert in Mexico City.
He has recently participated in the" International Mariachi Summit 2016", in San Diego, along with Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, and Jeff Nevin, soon after in Tijuana, Rafael paid special tribute to his grandfather Jorge Negrete.
He has also performed in Austria, Germany, France, Japan, Spain, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Peru. Negrete has also performed in major operas, like Turandot, Tosca, Carmen, Pagliacci, Nabucco, Madame Butterfly, in Mexican cities such as Tabasco, Durango, Zacatecas, Coahuila]], Toluca and Mexico City.
In 2015 he participated in The" Ceibe" Festival, in Villahermosa, Tabasco, and did a great starring role, in the Opera, The Pagliacci, of Ruggero Leoncavallo.
In November 2015, Negrete did consecutive representations of the Opera Tosca of Giacomo Puccini, in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, and received great reviews, in his role of" Mario Cavaradossi".
In 2016, he played Ismaelle, in the Opera Nabucco, of Giuseppe Verdi, performing with the Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra, which was also a big success.
Negrete is also very versatile when it comes to acting.
Therefore, he has participated in movies, musical plays, commercials, and television series: 1996 He was Azaël in L'Enfant prodigue by C.A. Debussy., at the Sala Revueltas and Ponce Hall at Belles Artes.
In 1994, he was Camille de Rossillon, in the play Merry Widow by F.Léhar, directed by famous Enrique Alonso, at" Teatro Lírico", Mexico In 1995, Negrete played" Matt", in The Fantastics by Harvey Schmidt at the Jiménez Rueda Theater, in Mexico.
In 1998, in a Mexican video home," La que se fue"( The one that walked away), directed by Juan Luis Orendáin, Negrete had the starring role of Francisco.
In this movie, his antagonist was a world know Mexican actor, Ernesto Gómez Cruz.
In 1999, played the role of Bellgallo, in the Austrian Operetta of Franz Von Suppé," Zehn Madchen und Kein Mann",( Ten Girls Without a Husband), directed by R. Pflanz, in Salzburg, Austria.
In 2004, he characterized Vato, in a famous musical play" Suave Patria", directed by Miguel Sabido, in Teatro Tepeyac" Mexico.
In 2006, he personated Fray Mendoza, in the movie Martín de Porres, directed by R. Calixto, in Mexico and Venezuela.
From 2006 to 2009, incarnated General Guadalupe Victoria, in the Mexican TV series" Secretos de Nuestra Historia"( Secrets of our History)
In 2007, Negrete participated in the movie Padre Pro, of Miguel Rico Tavera.
In 2012- 2013, Negrete acted as mariachi singer, Genaro," El Barítono de Hidalgo" in a Televisa Soap- opera Qué Bonito Amor( What a Beautiful Love), produced by Salvador Mejía and directed by Alberto Díaz.
In 2015, Negrete had a small role as a Mariachi singer, in the comedy movie" Una Última y nos Vamos" directed by Noé Santillán López.
Will Oakland
Will Oakland( January 15, 1880 – May 15, 1956) was an American countertenor famed for his exceptionally high vocal range.
He was born Herman Hinrichs in Jersey City, New Jersey, to German- American immigrant parents.
Oakland began his musical career after leaving the United States Army in 1905, joining Lew Dockstader's minstrels in Rochester, New York.
He began recording for Edison Records in 1908, soon after Richard Jose's retirement.
In addition to appearing as a solo performer, Oakland recorded duets with Billy Murray, sometimes singing the female part in love songs.
He often sang woeful, sentimental songs that contrasted with Murray's usually upbeat repertoire.
From 1912 to 1914 Oakland recorded in the Heidelberg Quintet, joining the members of the American Quartet.
Aaron Hoffman
Aaron Hoffman (October 30, 1880, in St. Louis, Missouri – May 27, 1924) was an American writer and lyricist, whose work was in wide use among vaudeville comedians.
He wrote material for numerous performers, including Lew Dockstader and Weber and Fields.
Hoffman also had success as a writer of Broadway plays and musical comedies.
In the 1910s, he wrote scripts and scenarios for silent films such as Beloved Rogues (1916) and several films starring actress Olga Petrova.
His play "Two Blocks Away" was adapted into the 1926 film The Cohens and Kellys, the first of the six-film "Cohens and Kellys" franchise.
Carme Pigem
Carme Pigem Barceló( Olot, 8 April 1962) is a Spanish architect, a member of the Pritzker Prize- winning architectural firm RCR Arquitectes, together with Ramón Vilalta and Rafael Aranda.
Leonardo Morales (footballer, born 1978)
José Leonardo Morales Lares( born 7 July 1978 in El Tigre) is a Venezuelan football goalkeeper, who, as of 2010, plays for Zulia and the Venezuela national team( for third goalkeeper, behind Renny Vega and Rafael Romo).

Question: Are Rafael Negrete and Lew Dockstader of the same nationality?
Answer: no