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Ginger Baker

Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker, English drummer and songwriter (d. 2019)

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker was an English drummer. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music.

19 August 1939

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