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Muddy Waters was an influential American blues musician who lived from 1913 to 1983 and played a key role in shaping modern blues music. He is widely recognized as one of the most important figures in blues history, whose work had lasting impact on the genre and popular music more broadly.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Issaquena County
- Place of death
- Westmont
- Child
- Big Bill Morganfield
- Occupation
- street artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Aristocrat Records
- Official website
- www.muddywaters.com
- Image
- Muddy Waters.jpg
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- Commons category
- Muddy Waters
- date of death
- 1983-00-00
- date of birth
- 1915-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Muddy Waters
- cause of death
- heart failure
- pseudonym
- Muddy Waters
- start of work period
- 1941-00-00
- end of work period
- 1982-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- topic has template
- Template:Muddy Waters
- name in native language
- McKinley Morganfield
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".
Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by the age of 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, copying local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. In 1941, Alan Lomax and Professor John W. Work III of Fisk University recorded him in Mississippi for the Library of Congress. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time professional musician. In 1946, he recorded his first records for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess.
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