Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and blues artist whose work was sampled by top hip-hop artists, has died at age 85, his family said Sunday.
” became one of the most sampled in hip-hop music. Elements of the song were found in music by Jay-Z, Tupac Shakur, the Wu-Tang Clan and Public Enemy, among others.“One of the most sampled artists of our time, his music served as the soundtrack for some of our most poignant moments in history,” his family said.
Born in Holly Springs, Miss., Johnson moved to Chicago’s South Side as a teenager and started playing blues guitar. He was named aJohnson left the music business for a time in the 1980s and founded Solomon’s Fishery, a fried fish restaurant which later became a largely Chicago-area chain. Decades later, he began working with Chicago-founded archival label Numero Group, which released a retrospective of his work. The 2010 boxed set, “Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology,” earned two Grammy nominations.
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