Pink Anderson
Sign in to saveAmerican singer-guitarist (1900–1974)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-09-26
- Active to
- 2015-07-30
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Pink Anderson (full name Pinkney Anderson, February 12, 1900–October 12, 1974) was a blues singer and guitarist, born in Laurens, South Carolina. After being raised in Spartanburg SC, he joined Dr. Kerr of the Indian Remedy Company in 1914 to sing and dance for crowds while Kerr peddled his patent medicine. In 1916, Anderson met Simmie Dooley in Spartanburg, from whom Pink learned to be a blues singer. When Anderson was not travelling with Dr. Kerr, he and Dooley would play small gatherings in
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Anderson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Laurens
- Place of death
- Spartanburg
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
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- start of work period
- 1930-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1900-02-12
- date of death
- 1974-10-12
- manner of death
- natural causes
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