Faye Adams

Person · Open Library

Born

1923-05-22

Died

2016-11-02

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

CA

Active from

1959-11-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

16,843

Total plays

51,951

As Faye Scruggs (her married name), she became a regular performer in New York nightclubs in the late 1940s and early 1950s. While performing in Atlanta, Georgia, she was discovered by singer Ruth Brown, who won her an audition with bandleader Joe Morris of Atlantic Records. Changing her name to Faye Adams, Morris recruited her as a singer in 1952, and signed her to Herald Records. Her first release was Morris's song "Shake a Hand", which topped the U.S. R&B chart for ten weeks in 1953 and made

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

   · 2010 · cited 23,272x

2. <i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software

   · 2007 · cited 19,959x

3. Crystallography &amp; NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination

   · 1998 · cited 13,094x

4. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,371x

5. Classification of subtype of acute ischemic stroke. Definitions for use in a multicenter clinical trial. TOAST. Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment.

   · 1993 · cited 10,189x

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Key dates

Born

22 May 1923

Died

2 November 2016

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Faye

Family name

Adams

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Newark

Occupation

musician

Genre

rhythm and blues

Instrument

voice

Record label

Atlantic Records

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