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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1920-08-29
- Active to
- 1955-03-12
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Discography
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- Listeners
- 1,363
- Total plays
- 4,434
Tags
blues
Sonny Parker (May 5, 1925, Youngstown, Ohio – February 7, 1957, New York City) was an American blues and jazz singer, dancer, and drummer. Parker was raised in Chicago by a vaudeville duo known as Butterbeans & Susie. He led a band at the Cotton Club in Cincinnati in 1948 which included King Kolax as one of his sidemen, and recorded with Kolax in Los Angeles later that year. He became a member of Lionel Hampton's ensemble in 1949, where he remained for the rest of his career. <a href="https://w
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Nationality
- United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Family name
- Parker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Child
- Jabari Parker
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- Texas A&M University
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- small forward
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 200
- Image
- 20121220 Sonny Parker.JPG
- Height
- 198
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- Commons category
- Sonny Parker (basketball)
- date of birth
- 1955-03-22
- drafted by
- Golden State Warriors
- end of work period
- 1982-00-00
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
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