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Lord Burgess
Lord Burgess
American musician
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Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte
American recording artist; singer, songwriter, actor
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Sir Lancelot
Sir Lancelot
Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian, actor
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Mighty Sparrow
Mighty Sparrow
Grenadian musician
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Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
American folk singer
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Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba
South African singer and civil rights activist
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Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton
American folk singer and singer-songwriter
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Eric Gibson
Eric Gibson
Bahamian musician
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Norman Luboff
Norman Luboff
American conductor, choir director, music arranger
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Thomas A. Dorsey
Thomas A. Dorsey
American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
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Chad Mitchell Trio
Chad Mitchell Trio
North American vocal group
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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax
American music historian, field collector, producer and filmmaker
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Ralph MacDonald
Ralph MacDonald
Trinbagonian-American percussionist, songwriter, musical arranger, record producer, steelpan virtuoso and philanthropist
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Herb Jeffries
Herb Jeffries
American singer and actor (1913-2014)
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Lead Belly
Lead Belly
American folk and blues musician
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Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten
American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter
William Attaway
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, screenwriter

William Attaway

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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, screenwriter
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William Alexander Attaway (November 19, 1911 – June 17, 1986) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter.