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Otis Taylor is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist born in Chicago in 1948. He began his professional work period in 1977 and is recognized for his roles as a banjoist, mandolinist, and guitarist. His musical output spans several genres, including blues, jazz, folk rock, and country music.
Taylor performs using instruments such as the banjo, guitar, mandolin, and harmonica. His work is associated with tags such as acoustic, singer-songwriter, and rock. He has released recordings through the record label Telarc International Corporation.
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Film & TV
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for
- Otis Taylor: Live at Festival Sons d'Hiver 2015 — vocals, guitar2015
- Crossroads — Jookhouse Musician - Lead Guitar1986
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1948
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 155,838
- Total plays
- 1,806,388
Tags
Otis Taylor is an American blues musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and vocals. In 2001, he was awarded a fellowship to the Sundance Film Composers Laboratory. Taylor's career in music performance and recording has taken a circuitous path. Born in Chicago 1948, and growing up in Denver after his family relocated there, he began listening to blues and folk-blues in his teens. Through Denver's Folklore Center, he began to play the
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Otis
- Family name
- Taylor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- mandolinist
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Telarc International Corporation
- Official website
- www.otistaylor.com
- Image
- Otis Taylor.jpg
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- Commons category
- Otis Taylor
- date of birth
- 1948-07-30
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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