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Blind boy fuller

Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen ) was an American blues singer and guitarist. Fuller was born July 10, 1907 in Wadesboro, North Carolina Calvin and Mary Jane Walker, the young Blind Boy is obliged, for a living, to sing and play in the streets of the cities of the tobacco belt ("belt of tobacco Winston-Salem, Durham, Richmond. He absorbs with great ease the game of all those he hears, fellow musicians (Reverend Gary Davis) or discs (Blind Blake, Josh White), and asserts himself as a remarkable guitarist, fingerpicking untied and full of dexterity, mixing blues chords with syncopated ragtime rhythms. He died on February 13, 1941 in Durham, North Carolina.

Blind Boy Fuller entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 2004.

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