Johnny Otis
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American musical entertainer (1921–2012)
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Johnny Otis, also known by the pseudonym Johnny Otis, was an individual whose professional career began in 1940. He was born on December 28, 1921, and died on January 17, 2012.
His contributions to music have been recognized within the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 9 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Johnny Otis appears in Vinony's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame collection — one of 410 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 342 inbound references to Johnny Otis, and connects out to Esther Phillips, AllMusic and King.
It is catalogued under topics including 1921 births, 2012 deaths and 20th-century American male musicians.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
Known for
- Play Misty for Me — Self (uncredited)1971
- Billy Jack — Other Ways Demolition Squad Student1971
via TMDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Vallejo
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Child
- Shuggie Otis
- Occupation
- disc jockey
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz fusion
- Instrument
- vibraphone
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Official website
- www.johnnyotisworld.com
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- date of birth
- 1921-12-28
- date of death
- 2012-01-17
- birth name
- Ioannis Alexandes Veliotes
- ethnic group
- Greeks
- pseudonym
- Johnny Otis
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
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