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Billy Preston
Sign in to saveAlso known as Billy Dewon Preston Jr.
American basketball player (born 1997)
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Within Vinony's link graph, Billy Preston is referenced by 34 other articles, and connects out to Dallas, YouTube and basketball.
It is catalogued under topics including 1997 births, 21st-century African-American sportsmen and 21st-century American sportsmen.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Best of Billy Preston
- Ultimate collection
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946-09-02
- Active to
- 2006-06-06
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 393,277
- Total plays
- 2,778,373
Tags
Billy Preston (2 September 1946 - 6 June 2006) was an American soul and rock singer, famously known as a child prodigy pianist before releasing several rnb hits (including #1 smashes "Will It Go 'Round in Circles" and "Nothing From Nothing") and working with classic artists such as Aretha Franklin and The Beatles. He notably performed with Mahalia Jackson at the age of 16 and appeared as a young W.C. Handy in a 1958 biopic. His first solo record was a gospel album called '16 Year Old Soul'. <a h
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues
· 2020 · cited 5,341x
- A human homologue of the Drosophila Toll protein signals activation of adaptive immunity
· 1997 · cited 4,091x
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Retired Basketball
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 240
- Image
- 20170329 MCDAAG Billy Preston on the wing (1).jpg
- Height
- 82
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1997-10-26
- Commons category
- Billy Preston (basketball)
- start of work period
- 2018-00-00
- social media followers
- 18028
Sources (8)
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