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It sits within the topics 1937 births, 1970 deaths and 20th-century African-American male singers.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
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Billy Stewart (March 24, 1937 – January 17, 1970) was an American musical artist, with a highly distinctive scat-singing style, who enjoyed popularity in the early 1960s. Billy Stewart began singing publicly with his mother's group, the Stewart Gospel Singers, as a teenager. He made the transition to secular music by filling in occasionally for the Rainbows, a D.C. area vocal group led by future soul star Don Covay. It was also through the Rainbows that Stewart met another aspiring singer, a ve
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Billy
- Family name
- Stewart
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Place of death
- Smithfield
- Occupation
- pianist
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Chess Records
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- date of birth
- 1937-03-24
- date of death
- 1970-01-17
- manner of death
- accidental death
- cause of death
- traffic collision
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- end of work period
- 1970-00-00
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