Facts: - instrument: vocals , mandolin , dobro , guitar - death place: yes virginia united states 1996 12 10 1934 03 04 arlington , - years active: 1957 - 1996 - landscape: no - caption: duffey with the seldom scene in ???? - birth name: john humbird duffey , jr. . - genre: bluegrass , country - name: john duffey - image size: 240px - background: solo_singer - label: starday folkways , mercury , sugar hill records , rebel records , - birth place: 1934 03 04 washington , d.c. united states - associated acts: the country gentlemen the seldom scene - occupation: musician Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john duffey .
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john h. duffey -lrb- march 4 , 1934 - december 10 , 1996 -rrb- was a washington d.c. based bluegrass musician .duffey was born john humbird duffey , jr. , in washington , d.c. , and lived nearly all his life in the washington d.c. area .he graduated from bethesda-chevy chase high school in suburban maryland .duffy learned to play the mandolin , dobro , and guitar , in addition to his tenor singing voice .he founded two of the most influential groups in bluegrass , the country gentlemen and the seldom scene .his tastes and sources were eclectic , often raiding folk song books and protestant hymnals for material .he embraced the music of bob dylan and his style of playing was rock and jazz-inflected .in the late 1950s and the 1960s , he also increasingly began working as a session musician to make ends meet .the son of a singer at the metropolitan opera , duffey possessed a soaring range that shifted almost without notice from tenor to falsetto .the contrast of his voice with the mellow baritone of country gentleman guitarist charlie waller created a rich blend without precedence in bluegrass .duffey started playing guitar at age 17 after a neighbor convinced him to pick up the instrument .in 1957 he worked at radio station wfmd in frederick , maryland partnered with charlie waller to fill in for other musicians .that duo eventually became the country gentlemen .as a member of the country gentlemen , duffey was inducted into the international bluegrass music hall of honor in 1996 .two months after his induction to the international bluegrass music hall of honor , duffey was hospitalized in arlington , virginia after complaining of chest pains .the next morning , he died after suffering a heart attack .