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Doctor Ross (Charles Isaiah Ross) was born on 21 October, 1925 in Tunica, Mississippi, U.S., is an American singer-songwriter. Discover Doctor Ross's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

Popular As Charles Isaiah Ross
Occupation Musician songwriter
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 21 October, 1925
Birthday 21 October
Birthplace Tunica, Mississippi, U.S.
Date of death 28 May, 1993
Died Place Flint, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1925

Isaiah Ross (October 21, 1925 – May 28, 1993), known as Doctor Ross, was an American blues musician who usually performed as a one-man band, simultaneously singing and playing guitar, harmonica, and drums.

Ross's primal style has been compared to John Lee Hooker, Blind Boy Fuller and Sonny Boy Williamson I.

Charles Isaiah Ross was born on October 21, 1925, in the Mississippi Delta town of Tunica, Mississippi, one of eleven children in a farming family of mixed African-American and Native American heritage.

His first instrument was the harmonica, which he learned to play at age nine.

1942

Ross made his professional debut in 1942 at the age of seventeen, broadcasting on the radio station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas.

Ross regularly played parties and appeared on WROX and WDIA after his army service.

1943

Ross served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1948 in the Pacific Theater, and again from 1950 to 1951.

He married shortly after leaving the army.

During his service, Ross had accrued a collection of army medical books which, along with his habit of carrying his harmonicas in a doctor's bag, earned him the nickname "Doctor Ross."

1951

In late 1951, Ross recorded his first 78 RPM record, "Country Clown," produced by Sam Phillips in Memphis and issued on the nascent Chess label.

1953

Ross would issue two more singles recorded with Phillips, both on Phillips' own Sun Records label, in 1953 and 1954.

1954

In October 1954, Ross moved his family to Flint, Michigan, and began working at a General Motors factory.

This employment, which Ross held for the rest of his life, afforded him a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.

1958

In 1958, Ross recorded "Industrial Boogie," a Flint-centric take on "Boogie Chillen'" by John Lee Hooker, released on his own DIR imprint.

1960

From 1960 to 1963, Detroit-based Fortune Records released four singles by Ross, including 1961's "Cat Squirrel," which later brought Ross to the attention of rock audiences when the song was covered on the debut albums of both Cream and Jethro Tull.

Following his Fortune singles, which were recorded with accompanists, Ross began recording most of his songs solo, providing vocals, guitar, hi-hat and bass drum played with foot pedals, and harmonica with a neck rack.

The left-handed Ross added to his colorful presentation by playing a right-handed guitar upside down, with the bass strings on the bottom.

1965

Ross's first album, Call the Doctor, was recorded as a one-man band and issued in August 1965.

The same year, he toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival.

1971

In 1971, Fourtune issued his second album, Doctor Ross the Harmonica Boss, recorded with the Disciples.

The same year, the Flamin' Groovies covered Ross's "Boogie Disease"—albeit uncredited—under the title "Doctor Boogie" on their album Teenage Head.

1972

Ross recorded live albums in Germany and Switzerland in 1972.

Two years later, Ross played on the Big Bear Records package tour and album American Blues Legends '74.

1981

In 1981, Ross won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording for his appearance on Rare Blues, a 1980 compilation album of blues artists recorded in Chicago from 1963 to 1965.

In the latter part of his career, Ross was a frequent fixture at blues festivals in both the United States and Europe.

1991

His last album was recorded live in 1991 at the Burnley Blues Festival in England.

1993

Ross died at the age of 67 on May 28, 1993, while working at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan.

After his death, a music scholarship in his name was established at Mott Community College in Flint.