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Sonny Sharrock

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American guitarist (1940-1995)

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1940-08-27
Active to
1994-05-26
jazz

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84,827
Total plays
698,159

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Sonny Sharrock (Warren Harding Sharrock; August 27, 1940–May 25, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed. One of few guitarists in the first wave of free jazz in the 1960s, Sharrock was known for his incisive, heavily chorded attack, his bursts of wild feedback, and for his use of saxophone-like lines played loudly on guitar. He had in fact wanted to play <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sonny+Sharrock">

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Sonny
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Ossining
Place of death
Ossining
Languages spoken
English language
Genre
funk
Instrument
voice
Official website
www.sonnysharrock.com
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date of birth
1940-08-27
date of death
1994-05-26
manner of death
natural causes
described by source
UbuWeb
cause of death
myocardial infarction
start of work period
1966-00-00
end of work period
1994-00-00
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