Willie Kent

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Sweden

Active from

1993

Active to

2016-12-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

6,733

Total plays

29,426

WILLIE KENT was born in 1936 in the small town of Inverness, Mississippi, just a hundred miles south of the border with Tennessee, and the blues ran all through his childhood. His first experience singing came in church, where he went "all the time" with his mother and brother. "Blues and gospel come from the same place," he would say later in life. "They're both from the heart." But the blues always called to him. Dewitt Munson, a neighbor wending homeward late nights with a guitar in his han

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

   · 2000 · cited 23,030x

2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,297x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,622x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,794x

5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,265x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Kent

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Occupation

singer

Instrument

voice

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