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- The Chez Piggy cookbook
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1944-12-19
- Active to
- 2002-12-13
contemporary folkfolk rock
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Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky (December 19, 1944 – December 13, 2002) was a Canadian rock musician. Born in Toronto, he was the son of political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky. He played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful, a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964. According to Sebastian, "He could play like Elmore James, he could play like Floyd Cramer, he could play like Chuck Berry. He could play like all these people, yet he still had his own overpowering personality. <a href="ht
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Toronto
- Place of death
- Kingston
- Spouse
- Jackie Burroughs
- Occupation
- record producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Genre
- rock and roll
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Zal Yanovsky, KRLA Beat 03-11-1967.jpg
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- writing language
- English language
- date of birth
- 1944-12-19
- date of death
- 2002-12-13
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- nickname
- Zal
- birth name
- Zalman Yanovsky
- Commons category
- Zal Yanovsky
- member of
- The Lovin' Spoonful
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