Washington Phillips
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Vinony files it under 1880 births, 1954 deaths and 20th-century African-American male singers.
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1880
- Active to
- 1954
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Washington Phillips (January 11, 1880 – September 20, 1954) was a Texan gospel singer and musician. Phillips died in 1954 in Teague, Texas. Phillips recorded eighteen songs, all between 1927 and 1929, though only sixteen survived. Some of his songs amount to highly specific and detailed gospel sermons, featuring Phillips' voice self-accompanied by an instrument that sounds like a fretless zither. This instrument, which has been variously identified as a Dolceola <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Phillips
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Texas
- Place of death
- Teague
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
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- Washington Phillips.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1880-01-11
- date of death
- 1954-09-20
- manner of death
- accidental death
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- Washington Phillips
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