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American musician, singer and pianist (1922-1984)

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Group
Origin
United States
Active from
1967
Active to
2024-04
blue-eyed soulnew wavepoppop rockpop soulsoft rock

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14,830
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James Faye "Roy" Hall was born on May 7, 1922, in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. An old colored man taught him to play piano, and to drink. By the time Roy turned twenty-one, he knew that he was the best drunken piano-player in Big Stone Gap, and armed with the pride and confidence that this knowledge gave him, he departed the town of his birth to seek fame. Roy made it to Bristol and farther, pumping boogie-woogie in every Virginia, Tennessee, or Alabama beer-joint that had a piano. <a href="https://

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date of birth
1922-05-07
date of death
1984-03-03
start of work period
1984-00-00
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