Roosevelt Sykes

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January 31, 1906 - July 17, 1983, he died aged 77 and was American.
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An Artist with 39 releases. 3 collaborations.

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Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 - July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician also known as "The Honeydripper".

He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player whose rollicking thundering boogie was highly influential.

The Biography appearing in this section is attributed to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Sykes. Portions of this Biography may be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, version 3.0 or any later version, available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Additional terms may apply. See Wikipedia Terms of Use for details.

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Blues, Jazz, Ragtime, Soul, Traditional R&B. Vote on Genres

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