Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
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- The Hawaiian steel guitar and its great Hawaiian musicians
- It Was a Trip, On Wings of Music
- Louisiana's best in high school football
- Louisiana sports legends
- Runners Whom Renown Outran
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Jerry Byrd (born in Lima, Ohio on March 9, 1920; died April 11, 2005) was a musician who played Lap steel guitar in country and Hawaiian music. His interest in the instrument began after a "tent show" when he was 12 and by 15 he was playing in bars. Although his initial interest was Hawaiian music much of his work was country and in 1944/1945 he joined the Grand Ole Opry. He was important to the early career of Dolly Parton being possibly the first to sign her. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ohio
- Place of death
- Honolulu
- Occupation
- musician
- Genre
- country music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Decca
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- cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- date of birth
- 1920-03-09
- date of death
- 2005-04-11
- medical condition
- Parkinson's disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1935-00-00
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