Edwin Hawkins
Sign in to saveAlso known as Edwin Hawkins Singers, Edwin Reuben Hawkins, Edwin Haw kins
American musician (1943–2018)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Oh Happy Day Cooking with Edwin Hawkins
- All Things Are Possible
- Seminar '91/Live Chicago
- Uncloudy days
- Face to Face
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1904-11-21
- Active to
- 1969-05-19
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 65,349
- Total plays
- 242,584
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Edwin Reuben Hawkins (August 19, 1943 – January 15, 2018) was an American gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger. He was one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He (as leader of the Edwin Hawkins Singers) was probably best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" (1968–69), which was included on the Songs of the Century list. The Edwin Hawkins Singers made a second foray into the charts exactly one year later, backing folk singer Melanie on "Lay
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- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
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- Regression Diagnostics
· 1980 · cited 6,513x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edwin
- Family name
- Hawkins
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oakland
- Place of death
- Pleasanton
- Sibling
- Walter Hawkins
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- rhythm and blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.edwinhawkins.tv
- Image
- Grand Gala du Disque in RAI Amsterdam. Repetities. Edwin Hawkins Singers tijdens, Bestanddeelnr 923-2979.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1943-08-18
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- end of work period
- 1990-00-00
- Commons category
- Edwin Hawkins Singers
- date of death
- 2018-01-15
- birth name
- Edwin Reuben Hawkins
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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