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Billy Preston
Sign in to saveAlso known as Billy Dewon Preston Jr.
American basketball player (born 1997)
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
2008 universal fire victimfifth beatlefunkgospelr&bsession
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 393,277
- Total plays
- 2,778,373
Tags
soulfunk70srockrhythm and blues
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
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Billy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Redondo Beach
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball
- Position played
- power forward
- League
- NBA G League
- 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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