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Jan 27, 1930 Rosemark, Tennessee, United States Died on 23 Jun 2013 (aged 83)
American soul & blues musician
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About Bobby Bland
- Robert Calvin Bland (né Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), 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 the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2012.
- He 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".
