| LC control no. | no 98011852 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Blowfly, 1939-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Blow Fly, 1939-2016 |
| See also | Real identity: Reid, Clarence |
| Birth date | 1939-02-14 |
| Death date | 2016-01-17 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Ga.) |
| Place of death | Lauderdale Lakes (Fla.) |
| Field of activity | Bawdy songs Musical parodies |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Composers Lyricists |
| Special note | Machine-derived authority record. |
| Found in | LCCN 91-742003: The Weird world of Blow Fly, 198- All music guide, Aug. 20, 2002 (Blowfly; b. Feb. 14, 1945, Cochran, Ga.; Blowfly is the X-rated alter ego of Clarence Reid) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 27, 2016 (in obituary published Jan. 22: Clarence Reid; b. Clarence Henry Reid, Feb. 14, 1939, Vienna, Ga.; d. Jan. 17, Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., aged 76; soul singer, songwriter, and producer who under the alias Blowfly was a proto-rap innovator and a leading light of American outsider music, thanks to decades of parody songs, sexual and scatological in nature) |
| Associated language | eng |
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