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Percy Sledge was an American male musician whose career began in 1960. He is associated with the soul, rhythm and blues, and blues genres. His musical output has been tagged with descriptors including 60s and oldies. Sledge passed away in April 2015.
His work is included in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection. Open Library lists him as the author of one work, titled Roots of Rhythm. Crossref records five works attributed to him.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Roots of Rhythm
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1940-11-25
- Active to
- 2015-04-14
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 687,729
- Total plays
- 3,800,684
Tags
Percy Sledge (born 25 November 1940 in Leighton, Alabama; died 14 April 2015 in Baton Rouge) was an American R&B and soul performer who most notably recorded the single "When a Man Loves a Woman" in 1966, an international top 40 hit that the RIAA has certified as gold. Having achieved his best successes in the mid-to-late 60s and early 70s with a series of emotional soul songs, in his later years he received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Career Achievement Award and was inducted in 2005 into
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text
· 2016 · cited 2,746x
- A DNA barcode for land plants
· 2009 · cited 2,165x
- Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer
· 2018 · cited 2,018x
- Weight and Type 2 Diabetes after Bariatric Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
· 2009 · cited 2,015x
- Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
· 2023 · cited 1,554x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Percy Tyrone Sledge , ( 1940-11-25 ) November 25, 1940, Leighton, Alabama , U.S.
- Died
- April 14, 2015 (2015-04-14) (aged 74), Baton Rouge, Louisiana , U.S.
- Genres
- R&B , soul , traditional pop
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Years active
- 1960–2014
- Labels
- Atlantic , Capricorn , Monument , Pointblank , Diablo Records, Sledgehammer Records, Virgin
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, gold-certified disc from the RIAA.
After working as a hospital orderly in the early 1960s, Sledge achieved his greatest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of emotional soul songs. In 1989, Sledge received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
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