Percy Mayfield
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Hit the Road Jack
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1920-08-12
- Active to
- 1984-08-11
2008 universal fire victimr&bsongwriter
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 47,215
- Total plays
- 233,339
Tags
bluessoulrhythm and bluessinger-songwriter50s
Percy Mayfield (12 August 1920 - 11 August 1984) was an American singer & songwriter famous for the songs "Hit the Road, Jack" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love".He was known as “Poet Laureate of the Blues”. Mayfield was born in Minden, Louisiana. As a youth, he showed a talent for poetry, so he thought he would try songwriting and singing. He began his performing career in Texas and had moved to Los Angeles by 1942. He auditioned his song <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Percy+Mayfield">R
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Percy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Minden
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- rhythm and blues
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- date of birth
- 1920-08-12
- date of death
- 1984-08-11
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Inglewood Park Cemetery
- start of work period
- 1947-00-00
- name in native language
- Percy Mayfield
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
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