Willie Nix

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1922-08-06

Active to

1991-07-08

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Listeners

11,556

Total plays

34,576

Willie Nix (August 6, 1922 — July 8, 1991) was an American blues singer and drummer. Born in Memphis, as a child he learnt to tap dance, later working as a teenager as part dancer, part comedian, with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. This led to work in various variety shows in the 1940s, and Nix later became a part of the blues scene that grew up around Beale Street, Memphis. His musical work saw him appear on local radio with Robert Lockwood Jr., and work alongside Willie Love <a href="https://www.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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   · 1995 · cited 3,706x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Memphis

Place of death

Leland

Occupation

singer

Genre

blues

Instrument

voice

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