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Leroy Carr was born on 27 March, 1905 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Discover Leroy Carr'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 30 years old?

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Occupation Musician songwriter
Age 30 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 27 March, 1905
Birthday 27 March
Birthplace Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Date of death 29 April, 1935
Died Place Indianapolis, Indiana
Nationality United States

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1904

Leroy Carr (March 27, 1904 or 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles.

Music historian Elijah Wald has called him "the most influential male blues singer and songwriter of the first half of the 20th century".

1905

Leroy Carr was born March 27, 1905 in Nashville, Tennessee.

His parents were John Carr, a laborer at Vanderbilt University, and Katie Lytle, a domestic worker.

After his parents separated, Carr moved to Indianapolis, Indiana with his mother.

Carr was a self-taught piano player.

1920

After dropping out of high school, Carr travelled with a circus, and in the early 1920s served in the U.S. Army.

Carr returned to Indianapolis and worked in a meat-packing plant.

He was married and had one daughter.

Carr was convicted of bootlegging and served a year at the Indiana State Penitentiary.

Carr had a longtime partnership with the guitarist Scrapper Blackwell.

His light bluesy piano combined with Blackwell's melodic jazz guitar attracted a sophisticated black audience.

The two recorded with Vocalion Records beginning in the 1920s.

1928

He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues", his debut recording released by Vocalion Records in 1928.

His first hit was "How Long, How Long Blues", recorded in 1928.

Elijah Wald described Carr's music as "carefully written, blending soulful poetry with wry humor, and his music had a light, lilting swing that could shift in a moment to a driving boogie. Rather than Smith's vaudeville jazz combos or Jefferson's idiosyncratic country picking, Carr sang over the solid beat of his piano and the biting guitar of his constant partner Francis (Scrapper) Blackwell. The outcome was a hip, urban club style that signaled a new era in popular music".

Carr was among the most prolific and popular blues artists between 1928 and 1935.

His recording career was cut short by his early death, but he produced a large body of work.

1930

Two months after the session, and a month after his 30th birthday, he died of nephritis and was buried in Floral Park Cemetery in Indianapolis.

Carr's vocal style moved blues singing toward an urban sophistication, influencing such singers as T-Bone Walker, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Ray Charles, among others.

Count Basie and Jimmy Rushing recorded some of Carr's songs, and Basie's band shows the influence of Carr's piano style.

Carr's music has been recorded by a long list of artists, including Robert Johnson, Ray Charles, Big Bill Broonzy, Moon Mullican, Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Donegan, Long John Baldry, Memphis Slim, Barrelhouse Chuck and Eric Clapton.

1931

Some of his most famous songs include "Papa's on the House Top" (1931), "When the Sun Goes Down" (1931), "Blues Before Sunrise" (1932), "Midnight Hour Blues" (1932), and "Hurry Down Sunshine" (1934).

He recorded for Vocalion until he signed with Victor's Bluebird imprint, where he made his final recordings.

Carr had a severe alcohol addiction.

1935

His last recording session was held in Chicago on February 25, 1935, in which the reportedly temperamental Blackwell stormed out before the session was finished and Carr recorded his final song, "Six Cold Feet in the Ground", as a solo.

1982

Carr was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1982.