- Aliases
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"Pine Top" Smith
"Pinetop" Smith
- Born
- June 11, 1904
- Died
- March 15, 1929
- Country
- United States
- Comments
- Pioneering and influential boogie-woogie pianist whose hit song Pine Top's Boogie Woogie was one of the first in that style. After working in vaudeville for most of the 1920s, he was accidentally and fatally shot in a dancehall brawl.
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