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Billy Preston

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Wikimp3 information about the music of Billy Preston. On our website we have 70 albums and 70 collections of artist Billy Preston. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Billy Preston represents Soul genres.

Biography

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It's advantageous to get an early start on your chosen career, but Billy Preston took the concept to extremes. By age ten he was playing keyboards with gospel diva Mahalia Jackson, and two years later, in 1958, he was featured in Hollywood's film bio of W.C. Handy, St. Louis Blues, as young Handy himself. Preston was a prodigy on organ and piano, recording during the early '60s for Vee-Jay and touring with Little Richard. He was a loose-limbed regular on the mid-'60s ABC TV series Shindig, proving his talent as both vocalist and pianist, and he built an enviable reputation as a session musician, even backing the Beatles on their Let It Be album. That impressive Beatles connection led to Preston's big break as a solo artist with his own Apple album, but it was his early-'70s soul smashes "Outa-Space" and the high-flying vocal "Will It Go Round in Circles" for A&M that put Preston on the permanent musical map. Sporting a humongous Afro and an omnipresent gap-toothed grin, Preston showed that his enduring gospel roots were never far removed from his joyous approach. He continued to perform and record throughout the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, until he fell into a coma caused by pericarditis late in 2005; sadly, he never regained consciousness and passed away on June 6, 2006.

Title: On the Air

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul

Title: Is It True

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Life Of An Artist

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Pop

Title: Last Night

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Big Rock

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: My Girl

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock

Title: Range

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Music Is My Life

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Soul, Funk

Title: A Whole New Thing

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Soul, Funk

Title: Outer Space

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Good Morning

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Great Hits

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Love Caught

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Timeless

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Blizzard

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Downtown

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Soul

Title: Sunday Car

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Sheet Music

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Title: Sunflower

Artist: Billy Preston

Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Collections

Title: That 70's Radio Hits

Genre: Pop

Title: Road Music

Genre: Rock

Title: Sentieri Notturni

Genre: Pop

Title: 70's Music Flashback

Genre: Pop

Title: Only the 70's Hits

Genre: Pop

Title: Number 1's: '70s Pop

Genre: Pop

Title: 70's Legends

Genre: Pop

Title: Roller Disco Hits

Genre: Pop

Title: Moonlight, Vol. 1

Genre: Pop

Title: Red Hot & Blue

Genre: Blues, Jazz

Title: Ska`Ard

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: Northern Souldiers

Genre: Blues

Title: Funk Soul USA

Genre:

Featuring albums

Title: 1981-2011

Artist: B. E. F.

Genre: Rock

Title: The '60s Hits

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Rock

Title: Road Music

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Rock

Title: Soulful Duets

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Blues

Title: Pigs Fly CD

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Rock, Pop

Title: The Very Best CD2

Artist: Rolling Stones

Genre: Rock

Title: Platinum (CD2)

Artist: The Beatles

Genre: Rock, Pop Rock

Title: Hey Jude

Artist: The Beatles, David LK Murphy

Genre: Rock

Title: Love Funk 2

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Pop

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