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Rockin’ Sidney
Rockin’ Sidney’s award-winning song, “My Toot Toot,” has inspired numerous covers in North and South America.
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Roosevelt Sykes
Barrelhouse pianist Roosevelt Sykes's style mixed rural and urban influences in bravura performances that some popular music historians consider the foundation for all modern blues piano.
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Rosie Ledet
Accordionist, singer, and songwriter Rosie Ledet is known as the “Zydeco Sweetheart.”
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Royes Fernandez
Royes Fernández, from New Orleans, was considered to be America's first premier ballet dancer.
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Sammy Penn
Traditional jazz drummer and vocalist Sammy Penn played with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on tour and in New Orleans.
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Shape Note Singing
Shape-note singing dates from the late seventeenth century and is a system of printed shapes, instead of standard music notation, to help untrained singers learn how to read the music.
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Shirley and Lee
Shirley Goodman and Leonard Lee, better known as Shirley and Lee, topped the rhythm and blues charts in the 1950s.
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Sidney Bechet
Clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of the first great soloists of traditional New Orleans jazz.
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Sing Miller
Sing Miller was a traditional jazz and blues singer and piano player from New Orleans.
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Slim Harpo
Baton Rouge guitarist, singer, and harmonica player James "Slim Harpo" Moore, one of the last traditional blues musicians to achieve pop success, was an important influence on many 1960s rock bands.
History
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup, a free Black New Yorker, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, spending twelve years enslaved on Louisiana plantations before regaining his freedom.
History
Son House
The guitar style of Edward James “Son” House has influenced blues musicians since the 1930s.
