Record ID:
35336835 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 83046997
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19420603
  • Chicago (Ill.)
Death:
  • 19991226
  • Roswell (Ga.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Occupations:
  • Rhythm and blues musicians Singers Composers Guitarists
Notes:
  • Individual was a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy Legends Award awardee.
  • Newport in New York '72 ... 1972.
  • Film composers guide, c1990 (Curtis Mayfield; b. 6-3-1942, Chicago, Ill.)
  • New York Times, Dec. 27, 1999 (Curtis Mayfield, 57, soul singer and songwriter; d. Dec. 26, 1999, Roswell, Ga.)
  • African American National Biography, accessed February 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Mayfield, Curtis; Curtis Lee Mayfield Jr.; rhythm and blues musician / singer, composer / arranger; born 03 June 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; attended Wells High School, Chicago; guitarist and tenor vocalist for vocal harmony group Impressions, achieved national hit with ballad For Your Precious Love (1958); established the publishing company Curtom (1960); composer at the Columbia's rhythm and blues subsidiary Okeh (1962-1965); formed Mayfield Records and Windy C label (1966); founded Curtom Records (1968); began solo career (1970); moved to Atlanta, Georgia; was permanently paralyzed from the neck down (1990); was inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as member of Impressions (1991) and as solo artist (1999), received Grammy Legends Award (1994); died 26 December, 1999 in Roswell, Georgia, United States)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)915442
  • 000000338571
  • abv00297442
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC UPB DHU-MS DLC
Authentication code:
  • kin