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A member of the popular group Bread, David Gates is also a songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and producer. His first hit as a songwriter came with the popular Mermaids song Popsicles and Icicles. David Gates was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a band director and a piano teacher on December 11, 1940. Surrounded by music from birth, he was proficient in piano, bass and guitar by the time he was in high school. In 1957, he received a musical break when Chuck Berry came to Tulsa; Gates had his first hi
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- human
- Family name
- Gates
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tulsa
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- country music
- Instrument
- viola
- Record label
- A&M Records
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- David Gates 2000.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1940-12-11
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- David Gates
- start of work period
- 1957-00-00
- birth name
- David Ashworth Gates
- name in native language
- David Gates
- member of
- Bread
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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