Bill Sinegal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bill Sinegal

American musician and songwriter

Date of Birth: 13-May-1928

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 14-Apr-2014

Profession: musician, songwriter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Bill Sinegal

  • Willie Norman "Bill" Sinegal (or Bill Sinigal, May 13, 1928 – April 14, 2014, New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American rhythm and blues bass guitarist and songwriter from New Orleans.
  • He is best known for his song Second Line. Sinegal played tenor saxophone and C melody saxophone.
  • He studied double bass at the Grunewald School of Music.
  • He served in the United States Army during World War II.
  • After the war, he worked in backup bands in New Orleans for musicians including Guitar Slim, Tommy Ridgley and Sugar Boy Crawford.
  • In 1959, he began playing with Earl King.
  • He toured extensively in the 1960s with Curtis Mayfield and Dee Clark. In 1964 he released a R&B single with Bill Sinigal and the Skyliners called Second Line, Parts 1 & 2 which featured rhythms from a traditional Second line (parades) brass band song, Joe Avery’s Blues.
  • The song was recorded in the studio of Cosimo Matassa with Milton Batiste on trumpet, James Rivers on tenor saxophone, and Ellis Marsalis on piano.
  • Second Line became a Mardi Gras standard.In the late 1960s, he left the music business to work as a photographer.

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