Othar Turner
Sign in to saveAmerican fife player (1907–2003)
Person
- Born
- 1907-06-02
- Died
- 2003-02-27
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Veteran bluesman Othar Turner was the last surviving master of the Mississippi back-country fife-and-drum tradition. He was born in 1908, spending his adult life as a sharecropper in the city of Como, an area several miles northeast of the Delta region which also gave rise to musicians including Fred McDowell, R.L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. Beginning his performing career around 1923, Turner initially played the blues as well before picking up the thread of the fife-and-drum tradition <a h
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Key dates
- Born
- 2 June 1907
- Died
- 27 February 2003
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Turner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rankin County
- Place of death
- Mississippi
- Occupation
- musician
- Genre
- fife and drum blues
- Official website
- www.othaturner.com
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Connections
Categories
1907 births2003 deaths20th-century African-American musicians20th-century American flautists21st-century African-American peopleAmerican male flautistsBirdman Records artistsBlues musicians from MississippiFarmers from MississippiFife playersMississippi Blues TrailNational Heritage Fellowship winners