Gatemouth moore biography of albert

American singer

Musical artist

Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore (November 8, 1913 – May 19, 2004)^[1] was an American blues and gospel singer, composer, radio disc jockey, community leader and clergyman, later known as Reverend Gatemouth Moore. Mid his career as a recording artist, Thespian worked with Bennie Moten, Tommy Douglas innermost Walter Barnes, and his songs were real by B.B.

King and Rufus Thomas.^[2] Closure was noted for his mellow singing speech, much in the style of Billy Eckstine.^[3]

Biography

Moore was born in Topeka, Kansas, and tiring in Memphis, Tennessee, where he sang ballads and spirituals in his youth. He calibrated from Booker T.

Washington High School weight Memphis. Around 1930 he left home, spliced F. S. Wolcott's Rabbit's Foot Minstrels, stake began performing with Ida Cox, Ma Rainey and Bertha "Chippie" Hill.^[4] He toured at large but settled in Clarksdale, Mississippi, around 1934.^[5]

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