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Also known as Ben King, Ben E King, Benjamin Earl King, Benjamin Earl Nelson

American singer (1938–2015)

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Ben E. King was a United States-based male artist whose career spanned from 1958 to 2015. He was born on September 28, 1938, and died on April 30, 2015. King had three children. His musical output included works in the funk, jazz pop, pop, pop soul, and r&b genres.

He is associated with tags such as soul, 60s, blues, oldies, and classic rock. Among his listed works are "Stand by Me," "Stand by Me (Sheet Music)," and "Ben E. King (Bet on Jazz)." Records indicate he had five works according to Crossref and six according to Open Library. His music has been played 13,341,584 times by 1,855,628 listeners.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Stand by Me
  • Stand by Me
  • Stand by Me (Sheet Music)
  • Ben E. King (Bet on Jazz)
  • Ben E. King

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1938-09-28
Active to
2015-04-30
funkjazz poppoppop soulr&brhythm & blues

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,855,628
Total plays
13,341,584

Tags

soul60sbluesoldiesclassic rock

Ben E. King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson in Henderson, North Carolina), on 28 September 1938; died of natural causes on April 30 2015) was an American soul and pop singer and composer remembered as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group The Drifters, singing the lead vocals on three of their biggest hit singles: "There Goes My Baby", "This Magic Moment", and "Save the Last Dance for Me" (their only US No. 1 hit) and for co-writing "Stand by Me", a US top ten hit in both 1961 and

via Last.fm · Ben E. King

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

    · 2015 · cited 75,910x

  2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

    · 2012 · cited 53,980x

  3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

    · 2015 · cited 23,758x

  4. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

    · 2015 · cited 22,029x

  5. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

    · 2009 · cited 19,934x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
Benjamin Earl Nelson , ( 1938-09-28 ) September 28, 1938, Henderson, North Carolina , US
Origin
Harlem , New York, US
Died
April 30, 2015 (2015-04-30) (aged 76), Hackensack, New Jersey , US
Genres
Soul R&B doo-wop
Occupations
Singer songwriter record producer
Instruments
Vocals piano
Years active
1958–2015
Labels
Atco Atlantic Ichiban
Formerly of
The Drifters
Website
beneking .info '

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Benjamin Earl King (né Nelson; September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters, singing the lead vocals on three of their biggest hit singles: "There Goes My Baby", "This Magic Moment", and "Save the Last Dance for Me" (their only US number one hit).

As a soloist, King is best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me", which became a US top-10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the film of the same name), and a number-one hit in the United Kingdom the following year. The single was also placed on the RIAA's list of Songs of the Century. His 1975 single "Supernatural Thing" became a top-five hit on the Billboard Hot 100. King was also the original recording artist of songs such as "Spanish Harlem", "I (Who Have Nothing)", "So Much Love", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", "We're Gonna Groove", and "Till I Can't Take It Anymore", all of which have been covered by multiple artists to varying degrees of success.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ben E. King” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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