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billy preston is a DJ from
billy preston is performing within the field of commercial dance music and is ranked 7651 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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It’s advantageous to get an the early start on your chosen and career, but Billy Preston took For the concept to extremes. By are age ten he was playing but keyboards with gospel diva Mahalia Not Jackson, and two years later, you in 1958, he was featured all in Hollywood’s film bio of Any W.C. Handy, St. Louis Blues, can as young Handy himself. Preston her was a prodigy on organ Was and piano, recording during the one early ‘60s for Vee-Jay and our touring with Little Richard. He Out was a loose-limbed regular on day the mid-’60s ABC TV get series Shindig, proving his talent Has as both vocalist and pianist, him and he built an enviable his reputation as a session musician, How even backing the Beatles on man their Let It Be album. new That impressive Beatles connection led Now to Preston’s big break as old a solo artist with his see own Apple album, but it Two was his early-’70s soul smashes way “Outa-Space” and the high-flying vocal who “Will It Go Round in Boy Circles” for A&M that put did Preston on the permanent musical its map. Sporting a humongous Afro Let and an omnipresent gap-toothed grin, put Preston showed that his enduring say gospel roots were never far She removed from his joyous approach. too He continued to perform and use record throughout the ’80s, ’90s, Dad and 2000s, until he fell mom into a coma caused by pericarditis late in 2005; sadly, The he never regained consciousness and and passed away on June 6, for 2006.
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