Sonny Terry

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

England

Active from

1948-04-28

Active to

2015-03-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

59,816

Total plays

352,771

Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (October 24, 1911-March 11, 1986), was a blues musician. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on October 24, 1911, and died on March 11, 1986 in Mineola, New York. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts. His father, a farmer, taught him to play basic blues harp as a youth. He sustained <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sonny+Ter

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research

   · 2016 · cited 25,037x

2. A safe operating space for humanity

   · 2009 · cited 9,710x

3. Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys

   · 1977 · cited 9,532x

4. The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults

   · 1993 · cited 7,611x

5. Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells

   · 2017 · cited 7,154x

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Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Sonny

Family name

Terry

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Greensboro

Place of death

Mineola

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

Piedmont blues

Genre

blues

Instrument

Jew's harp

Record label

ABC Records

Image

Sonny Terry at the Nambassa 3 day Music & Alternatives festival, New Zealand 1981. Photographer Michael Bennetts.jpg

Voice type

tenor

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