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Vinony's link graph records 67 inbound references to Roy Hamilton, and connects out to Los Angeles, basketball and African Americans.
It sits within the topics 1957 births, 20th-century American sportsmen and All-American college men's basketball players.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943
- Works
- 2
Top works
- 100 years of Derry
- A Comparison of Two Approaches of Symbolic Modeling and Self-Efficacy
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 49,114
- Total plays
- 234,947
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Roy Hamilton (b. April 16, 1929, Leesburg, Georgia – d. July 20, 1969, New Rochelle, New York) was an American singer who achieved major success in both the R&B and pop charts in the 1950s. He moved to Jersey City in 1943, studied commercial art, had operatic and classical voice training, and was a heavyweight Golden Gloves boxer, before joining gospel quartet The Searchlight Singers. In 1947 he entered and won an amateur talent show at the Apollo Theater with his dramatic rendition of "You'll
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roy
- Family name
- Hamilton
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- UCLA Bruins men's basketball
- Position played
- point guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 180
- Height
- 188
Show 2 more facts
- date of birth
- 1957-07-20
- drafted by
- Detroit Pistons
Sources (1)
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