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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

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5 total works indexed

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

   · 2015 · cited 73,357x

2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 52,842x

3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 22,963x

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

   · 2015 · cited 21,523x

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

   · 2009 · cited 19,787x

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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 '

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Wikidata facts

Official website

beneking.info

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Ben E King Performing on the Final Day of the 2006 Summerfest.jpg

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