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Etta Baker
Sign in to saveAmerican Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Fairmount's quartette
- Miss Mystery
- Frolics at Fairmount
- The girls of Fairmount
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929-12-23
- Active to
- 1988-05-13
2008 universal fire victimamericanjazzjazz and blueswest coast jazz
Discography
- Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman1953
- Chet Baker Sings1954
- Chet Baker & Strings1954
- Gerry Mulligan Quartet1955
- Sings and Plays With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings1955
- The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker1955
- Playboys1956
- Quartet: Russ Freeman Chet Baker1957
- It Could Happen to You: Chet Baker Sings1958
- Chet Baker in New York1958
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 33,391
- Total plays
- 219,070
Tags
bluespiedmont bluesfolkcountry bluesNorth Carolina
Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer. She was born Etta Lucille Reid in Caldwell County, North Carolina, of African American, Native American, and European American heritage. She played both the 6-string and 12-string forms of the acoustic guitar, as well as the five-string banjo. Baker played the Piedmont Blues for ninety years, starting at the age of three when she could not even hold the guitar properly. <a href="https://www.las
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Etta
- Family name
- Baker
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Caldwell County
- Place of death
- Fairfax
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Rounder Records
- Image
- Etta Baker (cropped).jpg
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1913-03-31
- date of death
- 2006-09-23
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- Commons category
- Etta Baker
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