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Little Richard
With his electrifying piano playing, flamboyant showmanship and full throttle
cry of "A-wop bop-a loo bop, a-wop bam boom!", Little Richard transformed rhythm
and blues into early rock'n'roll, inspiring the likes of Elvis Presley, The
Beatles and James Brown. Born on December 5th, 1932 and raised on the gospel
music of his local church in Macon, Georgia, Richard Wayne Penniman played in
New Orleans jazz and blues bands before adopting a sexy, frantic boogie woogie
style on his breakthrough hit “Tutti Frutti”. It became a watershed track, cited
by many as the birth of rock'n'roll ...
