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American singer (1938–2015)
OverviewAI-generated
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
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,855,628
- Total plays
- 13,341,584
Tags
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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,910x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 53,980x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,758x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 22,029x
- 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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Family name
- Nelson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Henderson
- Place of death
- New Jersey
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Sanremo Music Festival 1964
- Genre
- rhythm and blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Atco Records
- Official website
- beneking.info
- Image
- Ben E King Performing on the Final Day of the 2006 Summerfest.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Voice type
- baritone
Show 13 more facts
- Commons category
- Ben E. King
- date of birth
- 1938-09-28
- date of death
- 2015-04-30
- birth name
- Benjamin Earl Nelson
- member of
- The Drifters
- cause of death
- cardiovascular disease
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- pseudonym
- Ben E. King
- different from
- Ben King
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- end of work period
- 2015-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0