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If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

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Sun Ra
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 22
Died: 1993
Died: May 30
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Jazz Musician
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Birmingham
Alabama
Sonny Blount
Herman Sonny Blount
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Herman Blount
Sun Ra Arkestra
Herman Lee
Le Sun Ra
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Sonny Bourke
Le Sun-Ra
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