Barrett Strong

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1941-02-05

Active to

2023-01-29

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Listeners

296,779

Total plays

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Barrett Strong (born in West Point, Mississippi, on 5 February 1941 ; died 29 January 2023) was an American singer and songwriter. Amongst the first artists signed to Berry Gordy's Motown label, he is remembered as having the label's first hit (with "Money (That's What I Want)" in 1960) and for co-writing "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", and many other hit songs. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Haploview: analysis and visualization of LD and haplotype maps

   · 2004 · cited 12,367x

2. The Determination of Pore Volume and Area Distributions in Porous Substances. I. Computations from Nitrogen Isotherms

   · 1951 · cited 11,970x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

4. NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update

   · 2012 · cited 8,420x

5. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

   · 2007 · cited 7,930x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Strong

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

West Point

Place of death

La Jolla

Occupation

recording artist

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Genre

soul

Instrument

piano

Image

Barrett Strong.jpg

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