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Biography

Name: Little Richard
Variant Name: Richard Penniman
Birth Date: December 5, 1932
Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: musician, singer, songwriter, pianist

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Biography of Little Richard
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Little Richard (born 1932) inspired a generation of rockers with his frenzied rhythms and wildly energetic and outlandish stage persona. Little Richard is a rock and roll pioneer in every sense of the word. Rock's first certified zany, he brought...


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Little Richard , rock n roll musician Sourced I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard. quoted in Hamm (1979). Yesterdays , p.391. Middleton, Richard...


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Little Richard (1932?—) Summary
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Singer and pianist Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Little Richard, is one of the most audacious, seminal, and hysterical performers of 1950s rock 'n' roll. With his flamboyant costumes, a six-inch high pompadour, and feral stage antics,...
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Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5 1932), better known by the stage name Little Richard, is a celebrated African-American singer, songwriter and pianist, who began performing in the 1940s and who was a key figure in the transition from rhythm...


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Quotes about the death of James Brown
12/26/2006: 363 words, approx. 1 pages
Comments about James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul," who died on Christmas morning at the age of 73:___"What James Brown was to music in terms of soul and hip-hop, rap, all of that, is what Bach was to classical music. This is a guy who...
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Joe Strummer Roars B.A.M.
6/5/2007: 374 words, approx. 1 pages
When London called, Joe Strummer made it his job to listen. As the lead singer of the Clash, Strummer, who died in 2002 at the age of 50, turned the city’s breathless cries into a siren song of the apocalypse. Spilling over with nuclear fury...
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TV Lookout: highlights (and lowlights) for the week ahead, July 1-7
6/30/2007: 736 words, approx. 3 pages
It's a different kind of People's Court than viewers may remember when Judge Wapner was presiding.This is China, where, as business booms and capitalism takes firm root, a new form of jurisprudence rushes to keep pace.Marking the return of "Wide Angle" for its sixth season...
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Ike Turner remembered in musical service
12/22/2007: 677 words, approx. 2 pages
Ike Turner's funeral was part memorial service, part rock concert. The nearly three-hour remembrance Friday at Greater Bethany Community Church City of Refuge in Gardena featured Turner's eight-piece band, the Kings of Rhythm, which performed rollicking renditions of some of the musician's greatest hits, including...
 


 

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