Eddie Coker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American musician
Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1960
Place of Birth: Midland, Texas, United States
Profession: musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Eddie Coker
- Edward Eugene Coker (born December 1, 1960 in Midland, Texas) is a children's singer/songwriter from Dallas, Texas, now living in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Coker grew up in Highland Park, Texas, attended Highland Park High School, and earned a degree in music from Southern Methodist University.
- Originally an opera singer, Coker has been writing, recording, and performing children's music since 1987.
- Coker's songs draw on a wide range of rock and popular influences ranging from The B-52's and Queen to classical music.
- His songs and performances also feature fanciful and quirky characters such as Fred, a "purple red-truck-driving duck", and Regina, a musician-turned-construction-worker octopus. Coker has composed music for Barney & Friends, Chuck E.
- Cheese's, and Borders Books, and was the host of the Saturday-morning show "The Weird, Wild World of Eddie Coker" on Radio Disney.
- He typically performs over 200 concerts a year; fellow Texas musician Sara Hickman described him as "the James Brown of children's music...
- The hardest-working man in kids' show business."
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