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Little Richard (Singer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Little Richard Male Born Dec 5, 1932 Richard Wayne Penniman, known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the mid-1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and contributed significantly to the early development of soul music.… Read More related links Musician Seeks Out Bigots In Documentary 'accidental Courtesy' LATimes - 10 days ago ' Though the subject of âAccidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race &amp; Americaâ is a musician who has played with Chuck Berry and <mark>Little Richard</mark>, itâs not Daryl Davisâ musical talent that makes him the focus of the documentary. Instead, itâs his ongoing mission as an African American man to meet members...

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A mischievous child who played pranks on neighbors, Little Richard began singing in church at a young age. Possibly as a result of complications at birth, Little Richard had a slight deformity that left one of his legs shorter than the other. This produced an unusual gait; he was mocked for its allegedly effeminate appearance. Read Less TEENAGE 1947 - 1948 2 More Events 1947 14 Years Old On October 27, 1947, Sister Rosetta Tharpe heard 14-year-old Little Richard singing two of her gospel recordings before her concert at Macon City Auditorium. … Read More Tharpe was so impressed that she invited him to sing onstage during the concert. Clint Brantley recalled that Little Richard approached him before the show, announcing that Tharpe was allowing him to open the show. Brantley, as the promoter, told him he could not. However, when the curtain lifted, Little Richard began to sing and surprised Brantley with his vocal ability. The crowd cheered, and Tharpe paid him for his performance. Little Richard was hooked on performing for a living after that.

He began singing with traveling shows that came through town and was losing interest in school. He would sing to draw people to the local town prophet and spiritualist, Doctor Nubilio, who wore a turban and a colorful cape, carried a black stick and exhibited something he called "the devil's child" â the dried-up body of a baby with claw feet like a bird and horns on its head. Nubilio told Little Richard that he was "gonna be famous" but that he would have to "go where the grass is greener." Read Less 1948 15 Years Old Because of problems at home and school and associations in the community, Little Richard left and joined Dr. Hudson's Medicine Show in 1948, performing "Caldonia". … Read More Little Richard recalled the song was the first secular R&B song he learned, since his family had strict rules against playing R&B music, which they considered "devil music." Little Richard soon joined his first musical band, Buster Brown's Orchestra. While performing with the band, he began using the name Little Richard.

Read Less Show Less After his tenure with the band ended in 1950, Little Richard began performing for various vaudeville groups, including Sugarfoot Sam from Alabam, the Tidy Jolly Steppers, the King Brothers Circus and Broadway Follies, earning a reputation as a drag performer. … Read More About this time, Little Richard began listening more to R&B and frequented Atlanta clubs, where he witnessed Roy Brown and Billy Wright. Heavily influenced by Wright's flamboyant persona and showmanship, Little Richard began performing as a solo artist on the Chitlin Circuit. Little Richard gained notoriety for high-energy onstage antics during live performances. Read Less He eventually befriended Wright during an Atlanta performance in 1950. 1951 18 Years Old In 1951, Wright put Little Richard in contact with his manager, Zenas Sears, a local deejay. … Read More Sears recorded Little Richard at his station, backed by Wright's band. The recordings led to a contract that year with RCA Victor. Little Richard recorded a total of eight sides for RCA, including the blues ballad, "Every Hour," which became his first single and a hit in Georgia.

The release of "Every Hour" improved his relationship with his father, who began regularly performing the song at his nightclub. After its release, Little Richard fronted Perry Welch and His Orchestra, playing at clubs and army bases for $100 a week. Little Richard learned how to play boogie-woogie piano from teenage musician Esquerita around this time. Read Less 1952 19 Years Old Little Richard left RCA Victor in February 1952 after his records failed to catch on. … Read More That same month, his father was killed after a confrontation outside his club. Little Richard, struggling with poverty, settled for work as a dishwasher for Greyhound Lines and hired Clint Brantley as his manager. He formed a band called the Tempo Toppers that year and began to perform as part of blues package tours in clubs across the south, such as Club Tijuana in New Orleans and Club Matinee in Houston.

Read Less TWENTIES 1953 - 1955 2 More Events 1953 20 Years Old With the Tempo Toppers, Little Richard signed with Don Robey's Peacock Records in February 1953, recording eight sides, including four with Johnny Otis and his band that were unreleased at the time. … Read More Little Richard had a contentious relationship with Robey and soon found himself disenchanted with the record business and with his group, leaving Peacock and disbanding the Tempo Toppers. That same year, Little Richard formed a hard-driving R&B band, the Upsetters, which included drummer Charles Connor and saxophonist Wilbert "Lee Diamond" Smith and toured under Brantley's management. The Upsetters began to tour successfully, even without a bass player, forcing drummer Connor to thump "real hard" on his bass drum in order to get a "bass fiddle effect." Read Less 1955 22 Years Old At the suggestion of Lloyd Price, Little Richard sent a two-song demo to Price's label, Specialty Records, in February 1955.

… Read More Time passed before Little Richard got a call to record for the label. Art Rupe, owner of Specialty Records, loaned Little Richard money to buy out his Peacock contract and set him up to work with producer Robert "Bumps" Blackwell. Upon hearing the demo, Blackwell felt Little Richard was Specialty's answer to Ray Charles. Little Richard told Blackwell he preferred the sound of Fats Domino. As a result, Little Richard began recording at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studios in New Orleans that September, recording there with several of Domino's session musicians, including drummer Earl Palmer and saxophonist Lee Allen. The initial cuts failed to produce anything that would inspire huge sales, and Little Richard and his producer took a break at a club called the Dew Drop Inn. While there, Little Richard performed a risquÃ© song he had improvised from his days on the club circuit called "Tutti Frutti". The song's a cappella introduction was based on a drum rhythm Little Richard had devised. Blackwell felt the song had hit potential and hired songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie to replace some of Little Richard's sexual lyrics with less controversial words.

Recorded in three takes in September 1955, "Tutti Frutti" was released as a single in November. Read Less Show Less … During a period of racial tension in the United States, Little Richard attracted mixed-race audiences at a time when public places were divided into "white" and "colored" domains. H.B. Barnum later explained that Little Richard "opened the door. He brought the races together". Prior to Little Richard, audiences in musical shows were either "all black or all white and no one else could come in." Little Richard's success enabled audiences of both races to enter the building, albeit still segregated (e.g. blacks on the balcony and whites on the main floor). By the end of Little Richard's performances, however, the audiences would come together to dance. Despite broadcasts on TV from local supremacist groups such as the North Alabama White Citizens Council warning how rock and roll "brings the races together", Little Richard's popularity was helping to shatter the myth that black performers could not successfully perform at "white-only venues", especially in the South where racism was most overt.

<br /><br />Little Richard's show, according to Barnum, was the first rock and roll show to use spotlights and flicker lights, which had been a show business tradition, accentuating Little Richard's innovative use of colorful capes, blouse shirts, makeup and suits studded with multi-colored precious stones and sequins. Little Richard's onstage antics often included running on and off the stage, lifting his leg while playing his piano, and jumping up and down onstage and atop the piano, bringing audiences into a frenzy. Fans reacted in similar and sometimes extreme ways. Read Less During Little Richard's show at Baltimore's Royal Theatre in June 1956, several fans had to be restrained from jumping off the balcony. … Read More Cops stopped the show twice to prevent fans who had rushed the stage from ripping souvenirs off of Little Richard. During the same show, a woman threw a pair of her undergarments onstage at Little Richard, leading other female fans to repeat the action.

Read Less Little Richard had nine hits in the US in 1956 and five in Britain, with recordings such as "Slippin' and Slidin'", "Rip It Up" "Ready Teddy", "The Girl Can't Help It" and "Lucille". … Read More Most of Little Richard's earlier hits inspired covers by the likes of Pat Boone, Elvis Presley and Bill Haley. Described as having "electrifying movie-star looks", Little Richard accepted brief roles in movies such as Don't Knock the Rock, Mister Rock and Roll and The Girl Can't Help It. His success continued in 1957 with international hits such as "Jenny, Jenny" and "Keep A-Knockin'". Little Richard scored further hit singles such as "Good Golly, Miss Molly", eventually scoring 18 hit singles in less than three years. Read Less Little Richard's success made him a millionaire and, in late 1956, he settled in Los Angeles, purchasing a mansion in a wealthy section of the city, where he lived next door to boxer Joe Louis.

In 1956, Little Richard began a romantic relationship with Audrey Robinson, a 16-year-old college student, originally from Savannah, Georgia. … Read More According to Little Richard, he would invite other men to have sex with her in groups and once invited Buddy Holly to have sex with her; Robinson denied those claims. Read Less Show Less In May 1957, Specialty Records released Little Richard's first album, which contained six single recordings that had already been hits on the charts. … Read More Here's Little Richard, which reached No. 13 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, then a rare feat for a rock and roll artist. He had engaged in a serious romance with Audrey Robinson, then a teenage college student and later a stripper under the stage name Lee Angel. Read Less In October 1957, Little Richard embarked on a package tour in Australia with Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran. … Read More During the middle of the tour, he shocked the public by announcing his decision to follow a life in the ministry. Little Richard later explained that during a flight from Melbourne to Sydney that he had seen the plane's red hot engines and felt angels were holding it up.

During the Sydney performance, Little Richard saw a bright red fireball flying across the sky above him and was deeply shaken. He took the event, later revealed as the launching of the first artificial Earth satellite Sputnik 1, as a sign from God to repent from performing secular music and his wild lifestyle and enter the ministry. Returning to the states ten days early, Little Richard later learned that his original return flight had crashed into the Pacific Ocean solidifying his belief he was doing as God wanted. After a performance at the Apollo Theater and a recording session with Specialty later that month, Little Richard enrolled at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, to study theology. Fueling his decision to leave the music business was Little Richard's feeling that he hadn't received proper remuneration from Specialty. Upon ending his contract with Specialty in 1959, Little Richard reluctantly agreed to relinquish any royalties for his material. In 1958, he formed the Little Richard Evangelistic Team, traveling across the country to preach. Read Less A month after his conversion, while speaking at an evangelical convention in November 1957, Little Richard met Ernestine Campbell, a secretary from Washington, D.C.

He married her on July 11, 1959. … Read More Around this time, Little Richard began recording gospel and had some chart success with songs such as "He's Not Just a Soldier" and "Crying in the Chapel". Another gospel single, "He Got What He Wanted", reached the top 40 in the UK. Childhood heroine Mahalia Jackson acknowledged his gospel efforts after hearing him sing at Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Los Angeles. After working with Little Richard on the Mercury album King of the Gospel Singers, Quincy Jones remarked in 1984 that his performance in the studio impressed him more than any other artist with whom he had worked. Read Less The relationship ended after Little Richard's religious conversion in 1957. … Read More Robinson later became a stripper using the name Lee Angel. According to Robinson, Little Richard wanted to continue to see her but she felt uncomfortable seeing a preacher as a stripper. Described in GQs UK edition as a "lifelong soulmate", Robinson and Little Richard are occasionally in each other's company.<br /><br /> Little Richard met his only wife, Ernestine Campbell, at an evangelical rally in October 1957.

Read Less 1959 26 Years Old They began dating that year and wed in July 1959. … Read More According to Campbell, she and Little Richard initially enjoyed a happy marriage with "normal" sexual relations. Read Less Show Less … Little Richard returned to the UK the following fall, with the Rolling Stones as openers. At the end of that tour, he starred in his own special, The Little Richard Spectacular, for Granada Television. The special became a ratings success and was rebroadcast twice, after over 60,000 fan letters had been received. Footage of the special was shown around the world, highlighting the frenzy associated with rock and roll. Read Less In 1964, Little Richard returned briefly to Specialty and recorded five songs, including the charted single, "Bama Lama Bama Loo", which reached the top 20 in the UK but only number 82 in the US. … Read More Later that year, he signed with Vee-Jay Records and issued the album Little Richard Is Back. The album failed to catch on domestically, despite a televised performance of the single "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" on Shindig!

that drew wild responses from audience members. Read Less By September 1964, Jimi Hendrix, known to Richard as Maurice James, had joined the Upsetters band, as a full member. … Read More In December, Jimi and some '50s band members joined Richard in New York for a session of remakes. The most successful collaboration between Little Richard and Hendrix came in the following year, also in New York, when Hendrix, Billy Preston, and Little Richard recorded the soul ballad "I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me)", which became a number 12 R&B hit. Read Less 1965 32 Years Old Little Richard and Hendrix clashed over tardiness, wardrobe and Hendrix's stage antics, and as a result, in July 1965, Little Richard's brother Robert fired Hendrix. … Read More That same year, Little Richard attempted to set up his own record label but only cut two unreleased tracks. Instead he signed with Modern Records, which resulted in a very agreeable string of rock and soul singles but yielded just one chart-maker, "Do You Feel It?".

Read Less Show Less In June 2010, Little Richard recorded a gospel track for an upcoming tribute album to songwriting legend Dottie Rambo. … Read More Towards the end of the first decade of the new millennium, Rolling Stone reported that Little Richard remained "one of the most recognized and quotable celebrities in the world." Throughout the decade, he kept up a stringent touring schedule, performing primarily in the United States and Europe. Read Less However, sciatic nerve pain in his left leg and then replacement of the involved hip began affecting the frequency of his performances by 2010. … Read More Despite his health problems, Little Richard continued to receive critical acclaim for his performances.

Read Less Show Less Rolling Stone reported that at a performance at the Howard Theater in Washington, D.C., in June 2012, Little Richard was "still full of fire, still a master showman, his voice still loaded with deep gospel and raunchy power." Little Richard performed a full 90-minute show at the Pensacola Interstate Fair in Pensacola, Florida, in October 2012, at the age of 79, and headlined at the Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas during Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend in March 2013. He somberly told a Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C. audience in June 2012, "I know this is not Church, but get close to the Lord. … Read More The world is getting close to the end. Get close to the Lord." Read Less Show Less In 2013, Little Richard elaborated on his spiritual philosophies, stating "God talked to me the other night. … Read More He said He's getting ready to come.

The world's getting ready to end and He's coming, wrapped in flames of fire with a rainbow around his throne." Rolling Stone reported his apocalyptic prophesies generated snickers from some audience members as well as cheers of support. Little Richard responded by stating: "When I talk to you about Jesus, I'm not playing. I'm almost 81 years old. Without God, I wouldn't be here."<br /><br /> Little Richard's music and performance style had a pivotal impact on the shape of the sound and style of popular music genres of the 20th century. As a rock and roll pioneer, Little Richard embodied its spirit more flamboyantly than any other performer. Little Richard's raspy shouting style gave the genre one of its most identifiable and influential vocal sounds and his fusion of boogie-woogie, New Orleans R&B and gospel music blazed its rhythmic trail. Read Less Little Richard appeared in person to receive an honorary degree from his hometown's Mercer University on May 11, 2013.

… Read More The day before the doctorate of humanities degree was to be bestowed upon him, the mayor of Macon announced that one of Little Richard's childhood homes, an historic site, will be moved to a rejuvenated section of that city's Pleasant Hill district. It will be restored and named the Little Richard Penniman â Pleasant Hill Resource House, a meeting place where local history and artifacts will be displayed as provided by residents. Penniman was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on May 7, 2015. On June 6, 2015, Penniman was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame On June 19, 2015, the National Museum of African American Music honored Penniman with the Rhapsody & Rhythm Award for his key role in the formation of popular music genres, influencing singers and musicians across genres from Rock to Hip-Hop, and helping to shatter the color line on the music charts changing American culture forever. Read Less 2014 81 Years Old In 2014, actor Brandon Mychal Smith won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Little Richard in the James Brown biographical drama film Get on Up.

… Read More Mick Jagger co-produced the motion picture. Read Less Little Richard | Hollywood Walk of Fame African American Richard Wayne Penniman, known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Penniman states that: Penniman began his recording career in 1951 by imitating the gospel-influenced style of late-1940s jump blues artist Billy Wright, but did not achieve commercial success until 1955, when, under the guidance of Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, he began recording in a style he had been performing onstage for years, featuring varied rhythm, a heavy backbeat, funky saxophone grooves, over-the-top Gospel-style singing, moans, screams, and other emotive inflections, accompanied by a combination of boogie-woogie and rhythm and blues music.

This new music, which included an original injection of funk into the rock and roll beat, inspired many of the greatest recording artists of the twentieth century, including James Brown, Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Michael Jackson, and generations of other rhythm & blues, rock and soul music artists. He was subsequently among the seven initial inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and was one of only four of these honorees to also receive the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award. In October 1957, while at the height of stardom, Penniman abruptly quit rock and roll music and became a born-again Christian. In January 1958, he enrolled in and attended Bible college to become a preacher and evangelist and began recording and performing only gospel music for a number of years. He then moved back and forth from rock and roll to the ministry, until he was able to reconcile the two roles in later life. Richard Wayne Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia, the third of 12 children of Charles "Bud" Penniman, Sr., a bootlegger and his wife Leva Mae.

He grew up in a religious family in which singing was an integral part of their lives; they performed in local churches as The Penniman Singers, and entered contests with other singing families. His family called him "War Hawk" because of his loud, screaming singing voice. His grandfather, Walter Penniman, was a preacher, and his father's family were members of the Foundation Templar African Methodist Episcopal Church in Macon. His maternal grandmother was a member of Macon's Holiness Temple Baptist Church. Penniman attended the New Hope Baptist Church in Macon, where his mother was a member. Penniman's favorites were the Pentecostal churches because of the music and the fun he would have doing the holy dance and speaking in tongues with members of the congregation. When he was 10, he became a faith healer, singing gospel songs and touching people, who would testify that they felt better afterwards. Inspired by Brother Joe May, a singing evangelist known as "The Thunderbolt of the West", Penniman wanted to become a preacher.

Little Richard - Biography - IMDb Little Richard Biography Showing all 27 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (12) | Personal Quotes (6) Overview (4) The Real King of Rock 'n' Roll The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll The Emancipator 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "Architect of Rock 'n' Roll", traveled in his early days with the legendary vaudeville star Spencer "Snake" Anthony. One of Richard's early bands had the young, then unknown singer James Brown (the Godfather of Soul), a fourteen-year-old keyboardist named Billy Preston , and the famous and legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix . His first recording session took place at WGST in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; he was backed by a local band led by Billy Wright. This session produced a local hit called "Every Hour" which enjoyed heavy airplay on Atlanta's WERD radio station which was the first completely Black-owned radio station in the United States.

Little Richard was backed up by his idol Billy Wright, once referred to him as the most fantastic entertainer he had ever seen. Indeed, it was Wright who used a brand of makeup called Pancake 31. Little Richard admitted to copying Wright's penchant for heavy makeup and wild stage theatrics. With a public persona and personal life marked by sexual ambiguity, he would make his mark with later hits such as the suggestive "Tutti Frutti" and "Good Golly Miss Molly". Unbeknownst to many fans, Richard overcame a debilitating drug habit and eventually became an ordained minister. Beginning in the 1980s, he saw a resurgence in his popularity as he acquired small acting roles where he impressed fans, old and new, with his unique comedic timing. As versatile and ageless as ever, Little Richard continues to delight fans the world over with his extraordinary stage presence and flamboyant antics. Now inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the American Songwriters Hall of Fame, he remains one of the most popular entertainers in the world.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Community Spouse (1) ( 11 July 1959 - 1963) (divorced) (1 child) Trade Mark (3) Frequently and humorously tells audiences (or anyone in earshot) to "SHUT UP!" Powerful voice punctuated by high-pitched screams and moans His beaming, wide smile Trivia (12) He appeared in the music video and sang lead vocals on the song "Voices That Care". Presided over the 1987 Las Vegas marriage of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore at the Golden Nugget Hotel. Former brat packer Ally Sheedy was a bridesmaid. He was voted the 8th Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone. He was one of the greatest musical influences on Paul McCartney and David Bowie . According to producer Nile Rodgers , Richard was the initial inspiration for Bowie's biggest ever album, "Let's Dance", in 1983. Jimi Hendrix was a member of one of his touring bands, before Hendrix launched his solo career. Befriended The Beatles when he toured England in the early 1960s.

He and Beatles manager Brian Epstein got along especially well; Epstein persuaded him to lend his personal microphone to another singer when the stage mike failed, and to perform an extra concert. Lifelong friends with the late James Brown since they were teenagers. Has one leg three inches shorter than the other; would sometimes wake up from a night of partying, with one pant-leg cuff noticeably frayed from walking barefoot. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on June 21, 1990. He was awarded a star on the Music City Walk of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee in November 2008. Inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. Inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Personal Quotes (6) The band hated that makeup. If we didn't put on makeup, they wouldn't have let us in those white clubs. They figured we weren't gonna bother the white girls.

[on Elvis Presley ] Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. [on Elvis Presley ] He was an integrator, Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn't let black music through. He opened the door for black music. The grass may look greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut. I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms. See also Little Richard - Ready Teddy | Video | Break.com Little Richard - Ready Teddy Posted by mariachrisrina on Oct.

09, 2007 642 Previous video | Next video iframes not supported Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), better known by the stage name Little Richard, is an African-American singer, songwriter, and pianist, who began performing in the 1940s and was a key figure in the transition from rhythm & blues to roc Little Richard - Music on Google Play Little Richard About the artist Richard Wayne Penniman, known as Little Richard, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. An influential figure in popular music and culture for more than six decades, Little Richard's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship laid the foundation for rock and roll. His music also played a key role in the formation of other popular music genres, including soul and funk. Little Richard influenced numerous singers and musicians across musical genres from rock to hip hop; his music helped shape rhythm and blues for generations to come, and his performances and headline-making thrust his career right into the mix of American popular music. Little Richard has been honored by many institutions.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. 1 $9.49 Lifetime Friend is an album from Little Richard, his first album in seven years since the release of the 1979 gospel album, God's Beautiful City. Following that album's release and some 1981 record... 1 1 $9.49 The Rill Thing was Little Richard's comeback album after three years away. Utilising yet another new sound, the largely swamp rock album contained Little Richard's biggest post-Specialty single in ... 1 1 $9.49 The Explosive Little Richard is the first album from Little Richard under the Okeh label, produced by Little Richard's long-time friend Larry Williams and Johnny "Guitar" Watson and reflecting the ... 1 1 $9.49 Little Richard Is Back was Little Richard's seventh original album, and his first rock music album in five years.

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Penniman's "Tutti Frutti" (1955) was included in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2010, claiming the "unique vocalizing over the irresistible beat announced a new era in music." Little Richard – Exequy's Blog Bio , Entertainment , Music Reverend Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – ), better known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A key figure in the transition from rhythm & blues to rock and roll in the 1950s, Penniman’s legacy rests on a string of groundbreaking hit singles from 1955 through 1957, such as “Tutti Frutti,” “Lucille,” “Good Golly Miss Molly,” and “Long Tall Sally,” which helped lay the foundations of rock and roll and later influenced generations of later artists.

Little Richard’s early work was a mix of boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues, and gospel music, with a heavily accentuated back-beat, saxophone accompaniment, and raspy, shouted vocals, moans, screams, and other emotive inflections that marked a kind of music not previously heard by mainstream audiences. In 1957, while at the height of his stardom, he became a born-again Christian and withdrew from recording and performing secular music. Citing a calling to be an evangelist, attended Bible college and was ordained as a Seventh Day Adventist minister in 1958. He has since devoted large segments of his life to his ministry, but has also often performed in rock revival shows, films, commercials, and documentaries on the history of rock and roll. Little Richard was honored as one of the first seven inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and was one of only four of these honorees (along with Ray Charles, James Brown, and Fats Domino) to also receive the Rhythm & Blues Foundation’s Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award.

Biography Early life Richard Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Leva Mae (née Stewart) and Charles “Bud” Penniman, a bootlegger. Despite his father’s occupation, the family was a religious one. Growing up amid poverty and racism, singing was an important part of his early life that, according to Richard, brought him and his family closer to God. The family formed a gospel group called the Penniman Singers that sang in local churches and entered contests with other singing families. Richard’s siblings nicknamed him “War Hawk” because of his loud, screaming-style singing voice. Richard regularly attended the New Hope Baptist Church in Macon, where his mother was a member. However, of all the churches he frequented, Richard’s favorites were the Pentecostal churches because of the music and excitement he and his friends experienced doing the “holy dance” and speaking in tongues with members of the congregation. People sometimes testified to the young Richard’s gift of healing when ministered to them while singing. Deeply influenced by the gospel artists of the 1930s and 40s, Richard cited Sister Rosetta Tharpe as his favorite singer when he was a child.

In 1945, after hearing him sing before a concert, she invited him to sing a song with her onstage at the Macon City Auditorium. He was also strongly influenced by Marion Williams, from whom he got his trademark shout of “who-o-o-o,” inserted in his vocals. His appearance (hair, clothing, shoes, makeup, and so on) and sound were also reportedly influenced by the blues shouter Billy Wright. Another influence was powerful gospel vocalist Brother Joe May, known as the “Thunderbolt.” Penniman’s piano-playing was partly inherited from pianist Eskew Reeder Jr., better known as Esquerita, who demonstrated to Richard how to emphasize high notes without compromising the driving boogie bass line that would also characterize Penniman’s playing. Penniman explained, “I used to get in a room and try to make my piano sound just like him. He had so much energy.” Richard also learned to mix ministerial qualities with theatrics by watching the traveling medicine shows that rolled through his native Macon. In these shows, colorful lead performers would often wear lavish capes, robes, or turbans.

1950s In 1951, Penniman won a talent show in Atlanta, which resulted in a recording contract with RCA that produced no notable successes. In 1952, Richard’s father was murdered, after which he returned to Macon and performed blues and boogie-woogie music at the local Tick Tock Club in the evenings. He went on to record for Peacock Records in Houston from 1951 to 1955. In early 1955, he recorded his last two singles for Peacock backed by the Johnny Otis Trio. These records sold poorly, however, and Penniman had little success until he sent a demo tape to Specialty Records on February 17, 1955. Specialty’s owner, Art Rupe, purchased Richard’s contract from Peacock and connected him to A&R man Robert “Bumps” Blackwell. Blackwell, who had nurtured Ray Charles and Quincy Jones at the start of their careers, intended to have Richard compete against Ray Charles and B.B. King by having him record blues tracks.

During a break in a recording session in New Orleans in the late summer of 1955, however, Penniman began singing an impromptu recital of “Tutti Frutti,” in his shouted vocal style, while pounding out a boogie-woogie rhythm on the piano. Blackwell, who knew a hit when he heard one, had Richard record the song, after toning down its suggestive lyrics. The song was released in late 1955, and became the first of Little Richard’s many hits. A rapid succession of hit songs soon followed, characterized by Richard’s intense vocals and driving piano, funky saxophone-section arrangements, and Richard’s high pitched screams before sax solos. The hits included “Long Tall Sally,” “Lucille,” “Rip It Up,” “The Girl Can’t Help It,” “Slippin’ and Slidin’,” “Jenny, Jenny,” “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” and “Keep A-Knockin’,” all of which reached high or topped on the R&B charts and also crossed over to the pop Top 40. In the commercial fashion of the day, several of Little Richard’s early hits were re-recorded in other styles.

“Tutti Frutti,” was covered by Pat Boone, whose version initially outdid the source record on the pop charts, number 12 to number 17. Boone also released a version of “Long Tall Sally.” But this time, the Little Richard original outperformed it on the Billboard charts, number six to number eight. Bill Haley covered Richard’s third major hit, “Rip It Up,” but again, Richard’s version prevailed. With the record-buying public’s preference established, Little Richard’s subsequent releases did not face the same chart competition. Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers would soon pay tribute to Richard by covering his hits on their early albums. Conversion Suddenly, at the top of the music world, Richard Penniman’s Christian conscience began to plague him. Fearing his own damnation, he abandoned rock and roll music to pursue a calling as an evangelist. This brought an abrupt halt to the recording style that had made him famous and changed the world of music. He attended Oakwood theological college in Huntsville, Alabama where he reportedly was ordained as Seventh Day Adventist minister in 1958.

Richard recorded only gospel music from just after his spiritual conversion in 1957 until the early 1960s. He was married in 1959. During this time, he expressed the opinion that rock and roll was of the Devil and that it was not possible for him to be a rocker and please God at the same time. 1960s and 70s By 1963, however, Richard’s attitude had changed. He toured Europe with the Beatles as his opening act and soon returned to both recording and performing secular material. He was divorced in 1964, and in that year he again toured Europe with the then-unknown Rolling Stones. In 1964, he brought a fledgling guitarist into his band then known as Maurice James. Soon to become world famous as Jimi Hendrix, he toured with Penniman and played on at least a dozen Little Richard recordings between the spring of 1964 and 1965. In the mid-60s Little Richard recorded funky soul music with Hendrix joining some sessions, along with Johnny Guitar Watson on guitar. None of these session, however, yielded major hits.

Following the death of a beloved nephew in 1977, Little Richard turned away once more from secular music and returned to evangelism. He then recorded more gospel music and remained devoted to his ministry until the mid-1980s. He also represented Memorial Bibles International and promoted the Black Heritage Bible, which highlighted the characters in the Bible thought to be Black. In sermons during this period, Richard again proclaimed that it was not possible to perform rock and roll and serve God at the same time. 1980s In the mid-1980s, popular attention was again focused on Little Richard following the release of Charles White’s critically acclaimed authorized biography The Life and Times of Little Richard. In the book, Richard candidly explained his struggles with and repentance for substance abuse and homosexuality. At the same time, the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honored Little Richard as one of its first inductees. This renewed attention resulted in a show-business comeback for Little Richard. In 1986, he finally reconciled his role as a minister and as a rock-and-roll artist.

He recorded an album of inspirational songs for Warner Brother Records that he called “messages in rhythm.” His old friend Billy Preston helped him write the soundtrack of the motion picture Down and Out in Beverly Hills in which he also co-starred. The result was the song “Great Gosh A’Mighty,” which became a hit. Richard also received critical acclaim for his acting performance in the movie. Richard began performing his old classic rock and roll hits in the late 1980s, but continued to evangelize by performing gospel material in his rocking style. He testified to his faith both on and off-stage. 1990s-2000s Through the remainder of the 80s, 90s, and into the twenty-first century, Little Richard has been a popular guest on television, in music videos, commercials, movies, and as a recording artist. He has contributed new recordings to movie soundtracks (Twins, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Why Do Fools Fall in Love) and wrote and performed a song for the 2001 film The Trumpet of the Swan.

In 1994, he was featured on an episode of Full House titled: “Too Little Richard Too Late.” He played himself in the 1999 film, Mystery, Alaska, singing the “Star-Spangled Banner” and “O Canada” (slowly) before a pond hockey game between the local team and the New York Rangers. He also recorded duets in the 1990s with Jon Bon Jovi, Hank Williams Jr., Living Colour, Elton John, Tanya Tucker, Solomon Burke, and in 2006 with Jerry Lee Lewis, in which they covered the Little Richard-influenced early 1960s, hit Beatles track, “I Saw Her Standing There.” In 2000, Robert Townsend directed a biopic about Little Ricard’s life from childhood to his early 30s (c. 1962). Leon Robinson received an Emmy Award nomination for his outstanding performance in the starring role. He has since made numerous appearances at sporting events, on television shows, and in commercials.

On February 10, 2008, he performed at the 50th Grammy Awards, singing “Good Golly, Miss Molly” with Jerry Lee Lewis and John Fogerty. Legacy Little Richard has earned wide praise from many other performers and critics alike, as one of the major founders of rock and roll.

James Brown called Richard his idol and credited him with “first putting the funk in the rock and roll beat.” Smokey Robinson said Penniman’s music was “the start of that driving, funky, never let up rock and roll,” while Dick Clark described his music as “the model for almost every rock and roll performer of the 1950s and years thereafter.” Ray Charles asserted that Little Richard was “the man that started a kind of music that set the pace for a lot of what’s happening today.” In his high-school yearbook, Bob Dylan declared that his ambition was “to follow Little Richard.” Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Pete Townsend, Roger Daltrey, John Fogerty, Dick Dale, Bob Seger, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, and numerous other rock-and-roll icons have also cited Little Richard as being their first major influence. Little Richard was chosen as the eighth greatest artist of all time by Rolling Stone. At least six of the seven artists that preceded him on the list were heavily influenced by his music.

In 1986 he was one of the first seven inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has also received the Rhythm & Blues Foundation’s Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award.

Question: US singer/songwriter Richard Wayne Penniman is better known by what name?
Answer: Little Richard