Blues Singer facts

While investigating facts about Blues Singers and Blues Singer James, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Singer Lorde has sound-to-color synesthesia, a unique condition where sound blends with sight to create certain colors. This greatly contributed to the creative process on "Melodrama", where she wrote music to the "violets and blues" that appear on the album's cover

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Before X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) began filming. Patrick Stewart informed director Bryan Singer that he would be willing to play Mystique instead of Jennifer Lawrence. He said: "I am so ready to be naked, painted blue, and the world is ready for it too."

Blues singer who sold his soul at the crossroads?

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering blues singer who died at 27. Here are 30 of the best facts about Blues Singers Male and Blues Singers Female I managed to collect.

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1. In 1954, famous rhythm-and-blues singer Johnny Ace died after jokingly pointing a gun toward himself and accidentally shooting himself with it. His last words were "It’s okay! Gun’s not loaded… see?"

2. Robert Johnson, a blues musician who played on street corners and died at 27 with little success. 23 years later, in 1961, his LP was reissued and became a huge influence on rock 'n roll, including Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, who called him "the most important blues singer that ever lived."

3. About Lucille Bogan, a 1930s 'dirty blues' singer known for her extremely sexually explicit lyrics

4. Blues singer Blind Willie Johnson was arrested for singing “If I Had My Way I’d Tear The Building Down," a song about Samson, outside of a custom house when a passing police officer thought the gravelly voice Johnson was inciting a riot to destroy the custom house

5. Blues singer Bessie Smith was buried in an unmarked grave outside of Philadelphia; 37 years later Janis Joplin purchased a headstone for Smith a few months before she died in 1970.

6. Blues singer “Screamin’ Jay Hawkins” was fed up with song about love or heartbreak back in the 60’s, so he wrote a song about constipation

7. Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog' was a rendition of a song by the same name performed by a black rhythm and blues singer by the name of Big Mama Thorton. Who also had a song called 'Ball and Chain' which had a rendition performed by Janis Joplin

8. John Popper was a founding member of The Spin Doctors due to him going to high school and college with the Spin Doctors' singer Chris Barron before leaving to form Blues Traveler.

9. Connie Converse dropped out of college to become a folk singer, but had little success - then, out of the blue, she packed up her car and was never heard from again... years later her music became popular on Spotify

10. While filming 'The Blues Brothers' Universal wanted to replace the Blues legends in the cast with Disco singers because none of them had a recent hit.

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Singer Ray Stevens, who once recorded a wrestling song entitled "The Blue Cyclone," received thousands of sympathy cards from fans following the death wrestler Ray "Crippler" Stevens

Janis Joplin, just 2 months before her own death, bought a headstone for Bessie Smith's previously unmarked grave which read “The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing." - source

Johnny Ace, one of the most successful rhythms-and-blues singer of the 50s, shot himself in the back stage of a venue. His last words were "It's okay! Gun's not loaded… see?" - source

Daryl Davis, an African American blues singer who has befriended hundreds of members of the KKK in a bid to educate them. He keeps a “KKK member in good standing” medallion in his wallet.

Björn Skifs, lead singer in the band Blue Swede known (internationally) for "Hooked on a Feeling", sang the Swedish version of "On my way" in the Disney movie Brother Bear. - source

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The granddaughter of Woody Guthrie (singer-songwriter of “Dustbowl Blues”) married the grand-nephew of John Steinbeck (acclaimed writer of many dustbowl-era and themed novels), and they perform music together.

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Blues legend Robert Johnson achieved posthumous success after a 1961 reissue of his recordings reached a wider audience 23 years after his death. Eric Clapton called Johnson "The most important blues singer that ever lived."

Singer of Eels 'Mark Oliver Everett' released 'Electro Shock Blues' after losing mother and sister in one year.

Blues singer “Screamin’ Jay Hawkins” was fed up with songs about love back in the 60’s, so he wrote a song about constipation

Blue Oyster Cult's lead singer just guessed that 40,000 men and women died everyday

The lead singer of Blue Shoes is a woman. I thought it was a man and the song was a positive gay anthem of a gay man trying to pick up a straight man because he had lost his girl.