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- He died at age 27 as the suspected victim of a deliberate poisoning.
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Life and career. Early life. Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
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Not much is known about Robert Johnson’s early life, though some facts have come to surface in recent years. We know now that he was born Robert Leroy Johnson in Hazlehurst, Mississippi sometime in May 1911. He was born out of wedlock after his mother, Julia Major Dodds, had an affair with a field hand named Noah Johnson. Julia’s husband, a success...
At age 19, Robert Johnson performed on street corners here and there, but he was nowhere near an exceptional musician. Yet he was self-assured and took any chance he could get to perform. During Son House’s and Willie Brown’s shows in Robinsonville, Johnson would take one of their guitars during intermission and force the audience to listen to his ...
As the legend goes, after a teenage Robert Johnson was booed off the stage in Robinsonville, he went to a Mississippi crossroad at midnight and summoned the devil. The devil promised to endow him with supernatural musical abilities — as long as the musician gave up his soul in return. Historical records show that he actually learned how to play fro...
Robert Johnson mysteriously died in Greenwood, Mississippi on August 16, 1938, but his death certificate didn’t list a cause. What — or who — killed Johnson is still the subject of wide speculation. Many believe that the jealous husband of a woman he was having an affair with poisoned Johnson’s whiskey. Decades after he died, someone checked the ba...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Musician Robert Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. A singer and guitarist, Johnson is considered to be one of the greatest blues performers of all time.
Robert Leroy Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, USA, to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson, a laborer in a local sawmill. Robert’s mother was married to Charles Dodds, who had been forced by the locals to leave Hazlehurst. He was living in Memphis as Charles Spencer.
Sep 25, 2019 · Little about the life Robert Leroy Johnson lived in his brief 27 years, from approximately May 1911 until he died mysteriously in 1938, was documented.
- Reggie Ugwu
Jan 2, 2024 · The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Robert Johnson, a seminal American blues musician, have intrigued historians and fans alike for decades. Johnson’s life was as enigmatic as his music, with his death in 1938 being a subject of speculation and legend.
Aug 12, 2024 · Robert Johnson (born c. 1911, Hazlehurst, Mississippi, U.S.—died August 16, 1938, near Greenwood, Mississippi) was an American blues composer, guitarist, and singer whose eerie falsetto singing voice and masterful rhythmic slide guitar influenced both his contemporaries and many later blues and rock musicians.
