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Events on Friday 26 June 1903 2
1903 – 1958Big Bill BroonzyBlues singer and guitaristA founding figure of Chicago blues in the 1930s who later brought folk blues to Europe and inspired the British blues boom.
1903Big Bill Broonzy born in the DeltaLee Conley BradleyBorn in the Mississippi–Arkansas Delta, he starts as a fiddler.