Sunnyland Slim

Sunnyland Slim
Birth nameAlbert Luandrew
Born(1906-09-05)September 5, 1906
Near Vance, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedMarch 17, 1995(1995-03-17) (aged 88)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
GenresBlues
Occupations
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
InstrumentPiano
Years active1920s–1990s
Labels

Albert Luandrew (September 5, 1906 – March 17, 1995),[1] known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar blues.[2]

Chicago broadcaster and writer Studs Terkel said Sunnyland Slim was "a living piece of our folk history, gallantly and eloquently carrying on in the old tradition".[3]

  1. ^ Campbell, Robert L.; Pruter, Robert; White, George R.; Kelly, Tom (July 31, 2009). "The Aristocrat Label". Red Saunders Research Foundation. Retrieved June 5, 2014. "Blues pianist and singer Sunnyland Slim was born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi, September 5, 1906 (most sources say 1907, but the Social Security Death Index and 1920 census data give the date as 1906)."
  2. ^ "Sunnyland Slim". Britannica Online Encyclopedia, www.britannica.com. Retrieved June 5, 2008.
  3. ^ Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books. p. 171. ISBN 1-85868-255-X.