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24 de jul. de 2023 · Johnny Otis was born Ioannis Alexandros Veliotes on December 28, 1921 in Vallejo, California. His Greek-immigrant parents were Alexander Veliotes, a grocery store owner, and painter Irene Kiskakes. He grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood, and early in life, he decided that was where he belonged. “As a kid, I decided that if our ...
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25 de mar. de 2023 · Johnny Otis est un musicien, chanteur, compositeur et producteur américain d'origine grecque, né le 28 décembre 1921 à Vallejo, en Californie, et décédé le 17 janvier 2012 à Altadena. Il est surtout connu pour son rôle de pionnier dans le développement du rhythm and blues et du rock 'n' roll.
23 de jan. de 2012 · Johnny Otis saw American racial logic for the tortuous thicket of stupidity that it is and decided he wanted none of it. That he did this in the 1940s and 1950s, before it was the hip thing for ...
20 de fev. de 2012 · Born John Alexander Veliotes on December 28, 1921 in northern California to Greek immigrant parents, Johnny Otis had a profound impact on music and helped guide the industry from jazz to rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Eventually Otis came to be known as the “godfather of rhythm and blues.”.
Nacido en Vallejo, California, el 28 de diciembre de 1921, con el verdadero nombre de Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes (sus padres eran griegos), el futuro Johnny Otis se crio en un barrio mayoritariamente negro y, de inmediato, quedo fascinado por el blues y los generos cultivados por la poblacion negra.
19 de jan. de 2012 · But Johnny Otis found his teeming world of music in his Berkeley neighborhood and on the streets of L.A. In his eighties, as a radio DJ, he was still playing the sounds he loved and nurtured. You can’t say the man wasn’t true to the objects of his adoration: at his deathbed was Phyllis Otis, his wife of 70 years.
