Tyrone Davis
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
bebopclassicalcool jazzfunkhard bopjazz
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Tyrone Davis (Born May 4, 1938 - Died February 9, 2005) was a soul singer. He was born in a rural community around 20 miles outside of Greenville Mississippi in 1938 to John and Falker Davis, spent most of his formative years in Saginaw, MI, and moved to Chicago in 1959. He made many great soul records for the Dakar and Columbia labels from the 1970s, right through the disco and funk booms and into the 21st century. Davis' best-known hits were "Turn Back the Hands of Time" and "Can I Change My M
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Davis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Greenville
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- soul
- Genre
- soul
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Atlantic Records
- Image
- Tyrone Davis oct 1970.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1938-05-04
- date of death
- 2005-02-09
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
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