King, Ben E.
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Variants
- Nelson, Benjamin Earl
Additional Information
Birth Date
- (edtf) 1938-09-28
Death Date
- (edtf) 2015-04-30
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Drifters (Musical group)
Birth Place
- Henderson (N.C.)
Death Place
- Hackensack (N.J.)
Gender
- male
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
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Sources
- found: I had a love, p1976:label (Ben E. King)
- found: All music guide WWW site, Apr. 2, 2002(Ben E. King; b. Benjamin Earl Nelson, Sept. 23, 1938, Henderson, NC)
- found: Wikipedia, Feb. 27, 2013(Ben E. King; Benjamin Earl Nelson; b. Sept. 28, 1938, Henderson, N.C.; American soul singer and member of the Drifters) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_E._King
- found: New York Times, viewed May 4, 2015(Ben E. King, the smooth, soulful baritone who led the Drifters on “There Goes My Baby,” “Save the Last Dance for Me” and other hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and as a solo artist recorded the classic singles “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand by Me,” died on Thursday in Hackensack, N.J. He was 76.)
Change Notes
- 1991-05-20: new
- 2015-06-13: revised
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