Fats
They call him the Fat Man. With his easy-rolling boogie-woogie piano and smooth rhythm & blues vocals, Antoine "Fats" Domino put a New Orleans-style spin on what came to be known as rock and roll...
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is a classic R&B and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist. He was the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and early 1960s. Domino is also a pianist with an individualistic bluesy style showing stride and boogie-woogie influences. His congenial personality and rich accent have added to his appeal.
I was only nine years old, when I played my fathers old, green(!?), Fats Domino tape to death. You gotta love it, this voice and this music...
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is a classic R&B and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist. He was the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and early 1960s. Domino is also a pianist with an individualistic bluesy style showing stride and boogie-woogie influences. His congenial personality and rich accent have added to his appeal.
I was only nine years old, when I played my fathers old, green(!?), Fats Domino tape to death. You gotta love it, this voice and this music...
posted by Lusaut at 12:00
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I still don't know what an African-American is. If it really is what I was told, that makes me a Jewish-Greek-Italian-Celtic-Arab-Gothic-Portuguese?
Of course you are right. He was the best-selling negro singer. No! He was the best-selling black singer. No! He was the best-selling coloured singer.
Well. He was a singer and he sold a lot of records.
I myself, by the way, am a Celtic-Bohemian-Germanic-Slavic-probably Jewish-certainly English-and who knows what else-Austrian often accused of acquiring slowly but surely portuguese contamination...
...and I'm quite happy about it.
don't you hate labeling and political correction? I do!
Of course I do. Didn't you get the cynicism in my answer?
What I intended to say was that in spite of all the possible expressions mentioned above, none of them is 100% "satisfying", which leaves us with what??? We are, to a certain extent, conditioned by the society we live in, even if it’s only in the vocabulary we have available to express ourselves…
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