Percy Sledge

Percy Sledge (born November 25, 1940) is an American R&B; and soul performer. Percy Sledge worked in a series of blue-collar jobs in the fields in Leighton, Alabama before taking a job as an orderly at Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama. Through the mid 1960s, he toured the Southeast with the Esquires Combo on weekends while working at the hospital during the week. A former patient and mutual friend of Sledge and record producer Quin I... more

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  • Nov 25, 1940 (age 69 years)

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Also known as:

  • Percey Sledge,
  • Perrcy Sledge,
  • Percy Sladge ,
  • Perrcy Sladge,
  • Persy Sledge
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  • 1989

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  • 2005
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