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Johnny Otis is an American rhythm and blues musician, singer, songwriter, arranger and bandleader. He was a pivotal figure in the development of R&B and rock and roll, helping to shape the sound and style of both genres in the 1950s and 1960s. His daughter, Shuggie Otis, is also a well-known musician.
19 de jan. de 2012 · Johnny Otis obituary. One of the first US musicians to cross the racial divide in his search for 'soul'. Garth Cartwright. Thu 19 Jan 2012 14.13 EST. The bandleader Johnny Otis, who has died aged ...
Johnny Otis performs his monster hit "Willie and the Hand Jive" on his TV show. Late fifties? with Marie Adams, the Three Tons of Joy, and Lionel Hampton.
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Johnny Otis, de son vrai nom John Alexander Veliotes est un musicien, chef d'orchestre et compositeur américain, d'origine grecque, né le à Vallejo en Californie et mort le à Altadena (Californie), qui a contribué à populariser le rhythm and blues .
23 de abr. de 2024 · Johnny Otis (born December 28, 1921, Vallejo, California, U.S.—died January 17, 2012, Altadena, California) was an American bandleader, drummer, vibraphonist, singer, producer, and promoter of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Otis was instrumental in furthering the careers of a number of important rhythm-and-blues performers.
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 ...
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.
