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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1908-01-01
- Active to
- 2011-12-02
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Bill Tapia (January 1, 1908 – December 2, 2011), known as "Uncle Bill" and "Tappy", was an American musician, born to Portuguese parents. At age 10, Tapia was already a professional musician, playing “Stars and Stripes Forever” for World War I troops in Hawaii. In his long career beginning in vaudeville and quickly expanding as a jazz guitarist and ukulele player he performed with names such as Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley and Hawaiian musicians such as King Bennie Nawahi, Sol Ho
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bill
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Honolulu
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- banjo
- Official website
- www.billtapia.com
- Image
- Bill Tapia 2.jpg
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- Bill Tapia
- date of birth
- 1908-01-01
- date of death
- 2011-12-02
- cause of death
- disease
- start of work period
- 1918-00-00
- subject has role
- centenarian
- manner of death
- natural causes
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