Rock
United States
Little Richard
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O umělci Little Richard
Rodné město
Macon, GA, United States
Datum narození
December 5, 1932
Žánr
Rock
Many rock 'n' roll hits of the '50s might now sound almost tame. But even decades after they were first pounded out, Little Richard's singles have lost none of their shrieking-and-shouting intensity. And if they still feel like two-minutes-and-change jolts of pure joy today, they were blasts of liberation for teenagers in a decidedly more buttoned-up era. Macon, Georgia’s Richard Wayne Penniman, who died on May 9, 2020, brought the ecstatic belting of Baptist gospel into pop, blending it with the foot-stomping beat of the electrified blues. His gender-bending flamboyance shocked moralists while giving a voice to outsiders, scorching a path toward David Bowie's glam androgyny and Prince's gleefully pansexual revolution; the rip-it-up force of songs like "Lucille" and "Tutti Frutti" carried an unmistakable sexual charge. Those glorious torrents of wop-bop-a-loo-bop were barely concealed code for everything you didn't talk about in polite society, while also hitting you as pure ecstatic pop release. Meanwhile, his cross-cultural popularity was a battering ram against music's ruthlessly enforced racial barriers. Attacking his piano with an infectious sense of mayhem, Little Richard blurred the sacred and the profane into a scandalously beautiful roar.
Hudební vlivyMezi hudební vlivy Little Richard patří Amos Milburn, Arizona Dranes, Roy Brown a další.
Vliv: Little RichardLittle Richard ovlivnil hudbu The Rolling Stones, Amy Winehouse, The Beatles a dalších.
Podobné jako: Little Richard
Objevte další hudbu a umělce podobné umělci Little Richard, jako je Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Bill Haley and His Comets
