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Singer-songwriters from Mississippi

  • Sam CookeSamuel Cook arrived in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on the 22nd of January 1931. He was the fifth child born to Reverend Charles Cook and Annie Mae Carroll.
  • Jerry Lee LewisJerry Lee Lewis was born on the 29th of September 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana. He grew up in an impoverished farming family where his parents mortgaged…
  • Bo DiddleyEllas Bates McDaniel arrived in the world on the 30th of December 1928, inside a small town called McComb, Mississippi. He was the only child of Ethel…