Born in South Carolina, Josh White spent his childhood as a lead boy for travelling blind bluesmen. In the early 1930s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a mass white audience in the 1940s. He was famed both for his strong civil rights songs, which made him a favourite of the Roosevelts, and for his sexy stage persona. The king of Cafe Society, he was the one bluesman to consistently pack the New York nightspots, and the first black singer-guitarist to act in Hollywood films ...
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Born in South Carolina, Josh White spent his childhood as a lead boy for travelling blind bluesmen. In the early 1930s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a mass white audience in the 1940s. He was famed both for his strong civil rights songs, which made him a favourite of the Roosevelts, and for his sexy stage persona. The king of Cafe Society, he was the one bluesman to consistently pack the New York nightspots, and the first black singer-guitarist to act in Hollywood films and star on Broadway.
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