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Diunna Greenleaf

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Diunna Greenleaf (born October 6, 1957) is an African American blues singer and songwriter. [1]

44 relations: African Americans, Album, AllMusic, Aretha Franklin, Austin, Texas, Backing vocalist, Bikes Blues and BBQ, Blues, Blues Music Award, Boundary Waters Blues Festival, CD Baby, Eric Bibb, Gospel music, Houston, Human voice, International Blues Challenge, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, King Biscuit Blues Festival, Koko Taylor, Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas, Lavelle White, List of blues musicians, List of Texas blues musicians, Long Beach Blues Festival, Memphis, Tennessee, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Music festival, Notodden Blues Festival, Pinetop Perkins, Prairie View A&M University, Professional degree, Sam Cooke, Sarasota Blues Fest, Singing, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Songwriter, Teeny Tucker, Tempe, Arizona, Texas, Texas blues, Trudy Lynn, University of Texas Press, Zora Young, 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bikes Blues and BBQ

Bikes Blues & BBQ (alternatively named Bikes Blues and Barbecue, or abbreviated BBB) is an annual motorcycle rally that has taken place in Fayetteville, Arkansas since 2000, usually during the last weekend in September.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues Music Award

The Blues Music Awards are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up to foster blues heritage.

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Boundary Waters Blues Festival

Boundary Waters Blues Festival was established in 2001 by Michael Jankovec, host of a blues radio show in Ely, Minnesota and Deb Pettit and Doug Brown, of Timber Wolf Lodge.

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CD Baby

CD Baby, Inc. is an online music store specializing in the sale of CDs, vinyl records, and music downloads from independent musicians to consumers.

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Eric Bibb

Eric Charles Bibb (born August 16, 1951) is an American-born blues singer and songwriter.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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International Blues Challenge

The International Blues Challenge is a music competition run by the Blues Foundation.

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Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne (born Kenneth Wayne Spruell, November 13, 1944) is an American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.

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King Biscuit Blues Festival

The King Biscuit Blues Festival is an annual, multi-day blues festival, held in Helena, Arkansas, United States.

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Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor (born Cora Anna Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American singer whose style encompassed many genres, including Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues.

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Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas

Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas is a live blues album, recorded in Dallas, Texas, on October 2004 by Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. and David "Honeyboy" Edwards.

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Lavelle White

Lavelle White (born July 3, 1929) is an American Texas blues and soul blues singer and songwriter.

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List of blues musicians

Performers in the blues style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to big bands to country music to rock and roll to classical music.

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List of Texas blues musicians

Texas Blues is a subgenre of the blues, and of course is not limited to Texas-based musicians.

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Long Beach Blues Festival

The Long Beach Blues Festival, in Long Beach, California, was established in full in 1980, and was one of the largest blues festivals and was the second oldest on the West Coast (first being the San Francisco Blues Festival).

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Montreal International Jazz Festival

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Music festival

A music festival is a community event oriented towards live performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, or locality of musicians, or holiday.

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Notodden Blues Festival

Notodden Blues Festival (NBF) is one of the largest blues music festivals in Europe and the largest in Scandinavia.

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Pinetop Perkins

Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist.

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Prairie View A&M University

Prairie View A&M University, commonly abbreviated PVAMU or PV, is a public historically black university (HBCU) located in Prairie View, Texas, United States (northwest of Houston).

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Professional degree

A professional degree, formerly known in the US as a first professional degree, is a degree that prepares someone to work in a particular profession, often meeting the academic requirements for licensure or accreditation.

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Sam Cooke

Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur.

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Sarasota Blues Fest

The Sarasota Blues Fest is an annual music festival held at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Florida.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Teeny Tucker

Regina B. Higginbotham (born January 22, 1958) known professionally as Teeny Tucker is an American electric blues and new blues singer and songwriter.

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Tempe, Arizona

Tempe (Oidbaḍ in Pima), also known as Hayden's Ferry during the territorial times of Arizona, is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2017 population of 185,038.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas blues

Texas blues is a style of blues music.

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Trudy Lynn

Trudy Lynn (born August 9, 1947) is an American electric blues and soul blues singer and songwriter, whose recorded work has been released on nine albums.

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University of Texas Press

The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Zora Young

Zora Young (born January 21, 1948, West Point, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues singer.

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50th Annual Grammy Awards

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on February 10, 2008.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diunna_Greenleaf

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