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W.C. Handy, 1941
Featured Biography W.C. Handy

The weirdest music I had ever heard.

W.C. Handy upon first hearing the blues

Born this day in 1873, American composer W.C. Handy, among whose best-known works is the classic St. Louis Blues, changed the course of popular music by integrating the blues idiom into then fashionable ragtime.

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