Johnny Otis
USA
Born: 28 December 1921
Died: 17 January 2012
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Early R&B, R&B/Soul, West Coast Blues, Jump Blues/Piano Blues, Urban Blues, Jump Blues, East Coast Blues, Soul, Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots
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Johnny Otis has modeled an amazing number of contrasting musical hats over a career spanning more than half a century. Bandleader, record producer, talent scout, label owner, nightclub impresario, disc jockey, TV variety show host, author, R&B pioneer, rock & roll star -- Otis has answered to all those descriptions and quite a few more. Not bad for a Greek-American who loved jazz and R&B so fervently that he adopted the African-American culture as his own. California-born John Veliotes changed his name to the blacker-sounding Otis when he was i...
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