Toots Thielemans is a Belgian jazz musician known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century. He has worked as a bandleader and as a sideman, and has appeared on dozens of film soundtracks. In 2009 he became NEA Jazz Master, the highest honour for a jazz musician in the United States. He may be best known to some as the performer whistling the melody in commercials for Old Spice cologne. He announced his retirement, at the age of 91, on March 12, 2014. He took the stage since once, as a surprise act on August 17, 2014, at the Jazz Middelheim Festival in Antwerp, to perform an intimate version of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". 

April 29th, 1922 in Marollen as Jean Baptiste Frédéric Isidor Thielemans  /  Died:   Aug 22nd, 2016