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Little Richard kept audiences bopping more than 60 years to his rump shaking rock ‘n’ roll of pounding piano, uptempo rhythms, and howling vocals.

One of the founding fathers of rock ‘n’ roll, Little Richard was a musical force to be reckoned with: A gay black man who helped shatter the racial divide on the music charts and introduce black R&B to mainstream white America during the hyper conservative 1950s.

Advertisement Sister Rosetta Tharpe Little Richard owes his career to another historic rock ‘n’ roll figure. In the 1984 biography “The LIfe and Times of Little Richard,” the singer said Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock ‘n’ roll, inspired him to become a musician.

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