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Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes (Ιωάννης Αλέξανδρος Βελιώτης); December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was a first generation Greek-American singer, musician, composer, bandleader, record producer, and talent scout. [1] He was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll.
Johnny Otis, nome d'arte di Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes (Vallejo, 28 dicembre 1921 – Los Angeles, 17 gennaio 2012), è stato un cantante e musicista statunitense. Il suo repertorio è stato ampio ed ha riguardato diversi generi musicali: rhythm and blues, blues e jump blues, jazz, gospel, rock & roll, doo-wop, soul e funk.
6 ago 2024 · Johnny Otis (born December 28, 1921, Vallejo, California, U.S.—died January 17, 2012, Altadena, California) was an American bandleader, drummer, vibraphonist, singer, producer, and promoter of rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
20 apr 2017 · La copertina di Listen To The Lambs, scritto da Johnny Otis. Il personaggio più eclettico e industrioso in una generazione che ha vissuto la formidabile esplosione di jazz moderno e rhythm’n’blues nei locali della Los Angeles nera del periodo bellico e immediatamente post bellico, il bandleader-batterista-vibrafonista-pianista ...
20 gen 2012 · Johnny Otis, the musician, bandleader, songwriter, impresario, disc jockey and talent scout who was often called “the godfather of rhythm and blues,” died on Tuesday at his home in Altadena,...
21 gen 2012 · Johnny Otis, an R&B renaissance man and visionary whose passion for the blues, the back beat and racial equality helped ignite a West Coast music style in the late-1940s that made rock and roll possible in the 1950s and beyond, died January 17. He was 90.
19 gen 2012 · The bandleader, radio and TV host and composer who wrote "Willie And The Hand Jive" also discovered many of R&B's greatest voices. Otis died Tuesday in his Los Angeles home.
