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Name of person:W.c. Handy

Born:November 16,1873

Hometown: Florence Alabama

Best Known For:father of the blues Biography:W.C. HANDY was the father of the blues.he won many awards an accomplishments In describing "blind singers and footloose bards" around Clarksdale, Handy wrote, surrounded by crowds of country folks, they would pour their hearts out in song ... They earned their living by selling their own songs – "ballets," as they called them—and I'm ready to say in their behalf that seldom did their creations lack imagination."[

Interesting Facts:

Handy remains among the most influential of American. Though he was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American form of music known as the, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the from a regional music style with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music. Handy was an educated musician who used in his compositions. Quotes: Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.hard tomes that's all we hear 'round this way.Odd dimes they're growing thinner each day .good times,just round the corner,so the say refrences
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