Bobby Bland
Blues, Musical Artist
1930 – 2013
Who was Bobby Bland?
Robert Calvin "Bobby" Bland, né Brooks, also known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer.
Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. He was described as "among the great storytellers of blues and soul music... [who] created tempestuous arias of love, betrayal and resignation, set against roiling, dramatic orchestrations, and left the listener drained but awed." He was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues" and as the "Sinatra of the Blues"; his music was also influenced by Nat King Cole.
Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described him as "second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene".
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- Born
- Jan 27, 1930
Rosemark, Tennessee - Also known as
- Bobby Blue Bland
- Bobby Blue' Bland
- Bobby "Blue" Bland
- Bobby 'Blue' Band
- Bland, Bobby "Blue"
- The Lion of the Blues
- Robert Calvin Brooks
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Tennessee
- Died
- Jun 23, 2013
Memphis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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