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Michael O'Shea

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American actor (1906–1973)

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1969-06-15

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Michael O’Shea (11 July 1947 - 18 December 1991) was an experimental folk musician from Newry, Northern Ireland, who played a unique handmade string instrument he called “Mo Chara” (Irish for “My Friend”), loosely based on the blueprints for a North African zither. The instrument had seventeen main strings, with six more sympathetic strings which added a profound resonance similar to a sitar. It typically played by O'Shea with a pair of sticks (often chopsticks, drumsticks, or paintbrush handl

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Michael
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Hartford
Place of death
Dallas
Occupation
film actor
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Image
MichaelOSheaLadyofBurlesque1.jpg
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Commons category
Michael O'Shea
cause of death
myocardial infarction
date of birth
1906-03-17
date of death
1973-12-04
manner of death
natural causes
Commons gallery
Michael O'Shea
writing language
English language
start of work period
1943-00-00
end of work period
1971-00-00
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