| LC control no. | n 91057289 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sledge, Percy |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1941-11-25 |
| Death date | 2015-04-14 |
| Place of birth | Leighton (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Baton Rouge (La.) |
| Profession or occupation | Rhythm and blues musicians Singers Composers Soul musicians |
| Found in | Platoon [SR] p1987: label (Percy Sledge) New Rolling stone enc. of rock & roll (Sledge, Percy; b. Nov. 25, 1940, Leighton, Ala.) Contemporary musicians: v. 15 (Sledge, Percy; b. Nov. 25, 1940, Leighton, AL; rhythm and blues singer, songwriter) Int. ww in mus. Vol. 2, Pop. mus., 1st ed. (Sledge, Percy; b. Nov. 25, 1941, Leighton, Ala.; soul singer) All Music Guide WWW site, Mar. 8, 2001 (Percy Sledge; b. Nov. 25, 1941, Leighton, AL) Grove music online, November 20, 2013 (Sledge, Percy; born November 25, 1941, Leighton, AL; American soul singer) New York times online, April 15, 2015 (Percy Sledge, the R&B singer whose soulful ballad of eternal love and rejection, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” topped the charts in 1966, died on Tuesday [April 14, 2015] in Baton Rouge, La. He was 74. Mr. Sledge, sometimes called the King of Slow Soul, was a sentimental crooner and one of the South's first soul stars, having risen to fame from jobs picking cotton and working as a hospital orderly while performing at clubs and colleges on the weekends. Percy Tyrone Sledge was born on Nov. 25, 1940, in Leighton, Ala.) <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/arts/music/percy-sledge-who-sang-when-a-man-loves-a-woman-dies-at-74.html?_r=0> |
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