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Mr. Personality Rock n’ Roll Pioneer Lloyd Price has passed away

His hits ‘Personality’,  ‘Stagger Lee’, ‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy’ and many others were among the first to attract attention from a wide Rock ‘n’ Roll audience. He was born March 9th 1933 in Kenner, LA. He burst onto the national music scene in the 1950s with his distict New Orleans stroll sound.

Maxwell Entertainment owner Rickey Poppell posted the news on Facebook, saying, “My friend and Lloyd Price’s manager, Tom Trapani, just called to let me know that our friend, Lloyd, passed away last night. Those of us close to Lloyd have been keeping his declining health issues to our selves for the past five years, while Tom kept me up to date along the way. Lloyd was one of the sweetest, caring and kindest man I’ve ever known, I’ll miss him. My prayers go out to his lovely wife, Jackie.”

Lloyd Price was 88 years old.

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303 years ago,  La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded in the spring of 1718 (May 7 has become the traditional date to mark the anniversary, but the actual day is unknown) by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.❤️ Vive la Nouvelle-Orléans.

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