question: In what year was the singer who performed "Ginger Bread" born?
answer: 1940
context: Title: Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39
  Passage: Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot ("Break with hungry men thy bread" or "Give the hungry ones thy bread"), BWV 39 , in Leipzig and first performed on 23 June 1726, the first Sunday after Trinity that year.  Three years earlier, on the first Sunday after Trinity in 1723, Bach had taken office as Thomaskantor and started his first cycle of cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days in the liturgical year.  On the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724, he began his second cycle, consisting of chorale cantatas.  The cantata "Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot " is regarded as part of Bach's third cantata cycle which was written sporadically between 1725 and 1727.
  Title: Frankie Avalon
  Passage: Frankie Avalon (born Francis Thomas Avallone; September 18, 1940) is an Italian-American actor, singer, and former teen idol.
  Title: Ninetology Pearl Mini
  Passage: The Ninetology Pearl Mini (I5350) is an entry level smartphone powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon (1.0 GHz) processor and runs on the Android Ginger Bread 2.3 Operating System, with dual SIM capabilities.  The device is manufactured by Ninetology in collaboration with Qualcomm and Tune Talk.
  Title: Virginia Liston
  Passage: Virginia Liston (c. 1890 – June 1932) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer.  She spent most of her career in black vaudeville.  Liston recorded "You Can Dip Your Bread in My Gravy, but You Can't Have None of My Chops" and "Just Take One Long Last Lingering Look."  She performed with her then-husband, Samuel H. Gray, billed as Liston and Liston.  She also performed with Clarence Williams, singing with the Clarence Williams Blue Five on "You've Got the Right Key, but the Wrong Keyhole" and "Early in the Morning" and the Clarence Williams Washboard Band on "Cushion Foot Stomp," and "P.D.Q. Blues."
  Title: Peter Schumann
  Passage: Peter Schumann (born 1934) is the founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater.  Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961.  In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually settling in Glover, Vermont where the company still performs.  Schumann's best known work is the Domestic Resurrection Circus, performed annually by the Bread and Puppet Theater until 1998.
  Title: The Ginger Bread Boy
  Passage: The Ginger Bread Boy is an animated short by Walter Lantz Productions and is among the many films of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.  The story mentioned in the cartoon is based on "The Gingerbread Man", published in "St. Nicholas Magazine" magazine in 1875.
  Title: The Ginger House
  Passage: The Ginger House, the birthplace and childhood home of the American actress, dancer, and singer, Ginger Rogers, is a tourist attraction and museum located in Independence, Missouri, United States, at 100 W Moore Street.  This small Craftsman style bungalow was built between 1906 and 1910 by Oscar Mindrup, a local real estate investor and city councilman.  This site is the birthplace of Hollywood film actress/dancer Ginger Rogers.  Virginia Katherine McMath (Ginger) was born on July 16, 1911 to Lela Owens McMath, who was estranged from her husband.
  Title: Ginger Bread (song)
  Passage: "Ginger Bread" is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr. and Hank Hunter and performed by Frankie Avalon.  The song reached #9 on the "Billboard" Top 100, #10 on the R&B chart, and #30 in the UK in 1958.
  Title: Ginger Costa-Jackson
  Passage: Ginger Costa-Jackson (born 10 September 1986, and named Ginger Emilia Jackson) is an Italian-American operatic mezzo-soprano and perennial artist with the Metropolitan Opera since entering its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 2007.  The Met: Live in HD global broadcasts feature her frequently, as do other major theaters and concert venues worldwide.  Costa-Jackson has performed in her native Italian, English, French, and Spanish, and speaks these languages fluently, along with limited German.  While her signature role is "Carmen", Costa-Jackson is also a comedian, as in her Marchesa di Poggio (Glimmerglass Festival's 2013 adaptation of Verdi's "King for a Day /Un giorno di regno)", and also her 2009 Celia in Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" with the San Francisco Symphony.
  Title: Pardubice
  Passage: Pardubice (] ; German: "Pardubitz" ) is a city in the Czech Republic.  It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the river Elbe, 96 kilometres east of Prague.  There is an old Tower and a Castle.  Factories include the Synthesia chemical factory (manufacturer of Semtex, a plastic explosive), an oil refinery Paramo, a heavy machinery factory and an electronic equipment plant.  The city is well known for its sport events (Great Pardubice Steeplechase, Golden Helmet of Pardubice, Czech Open), ginger bread, rail and air transport.
citations: Frankie Avalon Ginger Bread (song)