Frank Stokes
Sign in to saveAmerican blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel (1888–1955)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1858
- Died
- 1955
- Works
- 3
Top works
- [The Northern regions pamphlets]
- Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute Museum of Arctic and Antarctic Pictures
- Frank Wilbert Stokes correspondence
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1888
- Active to
- 1955
Discography
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 33,712
- Total plays
- 165,408
Tags
bluesdelta bluescountry bluesfolkmemphis blues
Frank Stokes (January 1, 1888 – September 12, 1955) was a blues musician who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style. He was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, in South Memphis' largest vicinity Whitehaven, located two miles north of the Mississippi line. He was raised by his stepfather in Tutwiler, Mississippi, after the death of his parents. Stokes learned to play guitar as a youth in Tutwiler, and <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Stokes">
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frank
- Family name
- Stokes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- Place of death
- Memphis
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Genre
- Delta blues
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Paramount
- Voice type
- tenor
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1888-01-01
- date of death
- 1955-09-12
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1900-00-00
Sources (2)
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