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Floyd Council
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Floyd Council was an American male singer, guitarist, and mandolinist. He was born in Chapel Hill in 1911 and died in Sanford in 1976. His cause of death was myocardial infarction, classified as natural causes. Council performed in the blues genre, with specific tags including piedmont blues and ravens rnb.
He played the guitar, mandolin, and voice. Council was associated with the record label Columbia Records.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1911
- Active to
- 1976
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,801
- Total plays
- 24,496
Tags
Floyd Council (September 2, 1911 – May 9, 1976) was an American blues guitarist, mandolin player, and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular throughout the southeastern region of the US in the 1930s. Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, to Harrie and Lizzie Council, Floyd began his musical career on the streets of Chapel Hill in the 1920s, performing with two brothers, Leo and Thomas Strowd as "The Chapel Hillbillies". <a h
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chapel Hill
- Place of death
- Sanford
- Occupation
- mandolinist
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
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- date of birth
- 1911-09-02
- date of death
- 1976-05-09
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
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