Roy Buchanan
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It is catalogued under topics including 1939 births, 1988 deaths and 1988 suicides.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Roy Buchanan - Guitar Signature Licks
- Roy Buchanan - American Axe
- When a guitar plays the blues
- The Roy Buchanan Collection
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1939-09-23
- Active to
- 1988-08-14
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 254,512
- Total plays
- 2,125,278
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Roy Buchanan's (September 23, 1939 - August 14, 1988) musical career began in Pixley, California. His father was a sharecropper (not a Pentecostal preacher as Buchanan himself had claimed). Buchanan told how his first musical memories were of racially-mixed revival meetings his family would attend. "Gospel," he recalled, "that's how I first got into black music". He in fact drew upon many disparate influences while learning to play his instrument (although he later claimed his aptitude was deriv
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ozark
- Place of death
- Fairfax
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Polydor
- Official website
- www.roybuchanan.org
- Image
- RoyBuchananPerforming flip.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1939-09-23
- date of death
- 1988-08-14
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- Commons category
- Roy Buchanan
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
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