James
Carroll
Booker
Born in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Ancestors 
Son of James Carroll Booker
and Ora (Cheatham) Champagne
[sibling(s) unknown]
Died
at age 43
in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Biography
James Booker is Notable.
James Booker was a flamboyant New Orleans rhythm and blues composer, singer, and keyboard virtuoso with an influential signature backbeat, the "Booker groove."[1]
James Carroll Booker III, son of James Harold Booker and Ora Cheatham was born in New Orleans in 1939.[2] Born into a musical family, he was a brilliant child prodigy who grew up to struggle with addiction and mental illness.[3]
He was forty-three years old when he died at Charity Hospital in 1983; he was buried in Providence Memorial Park in Metairie, Louisiana.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "James Booker," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Booker&oldid=1223408166 (accessed May 15, 2024).
- ↑ "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYP5-5ST : Tue Jul 11 16:15:03 UTC 2023), Entry for James Booker and Ora Booker, 1940.
- ↑ David Ruben, "Booker's Mad Muse," SFGATE.com, website.
- ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #6666729
Memorial page for James Carroll Booker III Famous memorial (17 Dec 1939-8 Nov 1983), citing Providence Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Metairie, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.
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