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Dr. John

American singer-songwriter and pianist (1941–2019)

Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

His music combined New Orleans blues, jazz, R&B, soul and funk.

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Dr. John

what: one person
from: New Orleans
born: 1941
until: 2019
on the air here: 2 songs

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real name: Malcolm John Rebennack Jr

labels: Blue Note, Atco Records, Warner Music Group, Nonesuch Records, Concord Records, United Artists Records, GRP Records, Proper Records

genres: rhythm and blues, rock music, blues, funk, boogie-woogie, Dixieland jazz

awards: Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, MOJO Awards, Blues Music Award, Grammy Award for Best Blues Album

plays: digital organ, piano, voice, guitar, musical keyboard, Hammond organ, organ, electric piano

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Early life and career

Rebennack was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 20, 1941. He was the son of Dorothy (née Cronin) and Malcolm John Rebennack, and had German, Irish, Spanish, English, and French heritage. His father ran an appliance shop in the East End of New Orleans, fixing radios and televisions and selling records. Growing up in the 3rd Ward of New Orleans, he found early musical inspiration in the minstrel show tunes sung by his grandfather and a number of aunts, uncles, sister, and cousins who played piano. He did not take music lessons before his teens and endured only a short stint in choir before getting kicked out. When Rebennack was a young boy, his father exposed him to jazz musicians King Oliver and Louis Armstrong, who later inspired...

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Voodoo influence

As a young man, Rebennack was interested in New Orleans voodoo, and in Los Angeles he developed the idea of the Dr. John persona for his old friend Ronnie Barron, based on the life of Dr. John, a Senegalese prince, conjure man, herb doctor, and spiritual healer who came to New Orleans from Haiti. This free man of color lived on Bayou Road and claimed to have 15 wives and over 50 children. He kept an assortment of snakes and lizards, along with embalmed scorpions and animal and human skulls, and sold gris-gris, voodoo amulets which supposedly protect the wearer from harm.

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Musical style

Dr. John's style pans from blues and pop to jazz, boogie woogie, rock-and-roll, R&B & psychedelic rock.

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Malcolm John Rebennack (born November 20, 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - died June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer and songwriter. His music combines blues, pop, jazz, boogie woogie and rock and roll. Rebennack began playing the piano at the age of six and, as he grew up, he became strongly influenced by the style of Roy Byrd (aka Professor Longhair). He immersed himself in the music and voodoo cultures of New Orleans, where he became known as Mac Rebennack, playing the organ in strip-clubs with 'make-up' bands in the French Quarter. However, it was as a session guitarist with John Vincent's Ace Records that gave him his first break, around 1957. He worked with the New Orleans R&B session crew at Crescent City's 'Cosimo V. Matassa' studio and with an 'All For One' co-operative formed by Harold Battiste- cutting Storm Warning (Rex, 1957) and singles on Ace, Rex and AFO (an acronym of All For One) . Rebennack then moved to California in 1962 with Battiste's crew, where they played on Sam Cooke's final recording session. Rebennack subsequently undertook a lot of sessi Also known as: "Dr. John", (Dr. John), Creaux, D. John, DR. John From Discogs (free to use). Their entry