death_date death_place years_active birth_place label name background birth_date instrument genre article_title birth_name
1 december 1969 chicago 1957 -- 1969 grenada , mississippi cobra , chief , delmark magic sam solo_singer 14 february 1937 guitar , vocals blues magic sam
 samuel gene maghett
magic sam

samuel `` magic sam '' gene maghett -lrb- february 14 , 1937 -- december 1 , 1969 -rrb- was an american chicago blues musician .
maghett was born in grenada , mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by muddy waters and little walter .
after moving to chicago at the age of nineteen , he was signed by cobra records and became well known as a bluesman after his first record , `` all your love '' in 1957 .
he was known for his distinctive tremolo-guitar playing .
