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Ronnie Foster
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Within Vinony's link graph, Ronnie Foster is referenced by 107 other articles, and connects out to Columbia Records, Grover Washington, Jr. and jazz.
Vinony files it under 1950 births, 20th-century African-American musicians and 21st-century African-American musicians.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Last Train Runnin'
- Collin County Freedom Fighters
- Colin County Freedom Fighters True Stories from the Wall of Honor
- Last Train Runnin
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1950-05-12
Discography
- The Two-Headed Freap1972
- Sweet Revival1973
- On the Avenue1974
- Cheshire Cat1975
- Love Satellite1978
- Delight1979
- The Racer1987
- Reboot2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 158,448
- Total plays
- 803,397
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Ronnie Foster was born in Buffalo, New York, and began playing piano at the age of 4. By age 12 he had switched to Hammond organ and became a student of the jazz great Jimmy Smith. At age 15, Ronnie started playing with George Benson on weekends, while still in school. After graduating from high school Ronnie began a two-year stint with The Billy Wooten Trio. Eventually, Ronnie began playing New York clubs. At 20 he got a call from New York that Saxophonist great Stanley Turrentine was looking
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Foster
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Buffalo
- Occupation
- composer
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- musical keyboard
- Record label
- Columbia Records
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- date of birth
- 1950-05-12
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
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