Bobby Byrd born Robert Howard Byrd (August 15, 1934 – September 12, 2007) was an African American funk/soul/R&B;/gospel musician, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Toccoa, Georgia.
Bobby Byrd was raised in the relative security of a church-going family in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1934. His family were respected members of their congregation and active in supporting their community. He was active in his local church's gospel choir, The Zio...
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Bobby Byrd born Robert Howard Byrd (August 15, 1934 – September 12, 2007) was an African American funk/soul/R&B;/gospel musician, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Toccoa, Georgia.
Bobby Byrd was raised in the relative security of a church-going family in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1934. His family were respected members of their congregation and active in supporting their community. He was active in his local church's gospel choir, The Zioneers and then made a local name for himself in the Gospel Starlighters. It was a time when church elders disapproved of secular singing, so Byrd and the other members of the Gospel Starlighters would leave the state to perform secular material as The Avons. Byrd provided vocals, piano, and organ, and he led a group including: Sylvester Keels, Fred Pulliam, Doyle Onglesby, Nashpendle "Nash" Knox, and Nafloyd Scott on guitar.
In 1952 Bobby Byrd was playing baseball against the inmates of the Alto Reformatory prison team and met the music mad...
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