Snooky Pryor
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Person
- Born
- 1921-09-15
- Died
- 2006-10-18
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Snooky Pryor (September 15, 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player. He claimed to have pioneered the now-common method of playing amplified harmonica by cupping a small microphone in his hands along with the harmonica, although on his earliest records in the late 1940s and early '50s he did not utilize this method. Career: James Edward Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi and developed a Delta blues style influenced by both Sonny Boy Williamson I and Sonny B
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Key dates
- Born
- 15 September 1921
- Died
- 18 October 2006
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lambert
- Place of death
- Cape Girardeau
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Vee-Jay Records
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