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Dobie Gray

photo credit: Peter Nash

Active

1960s - 2010s

Born

July 26, 1940 in Simonton, TX

Died

December 6, 2011 in Nashville, TN

Genre

R&B Pop/Rock Country

Styles

Country Soul Pop-Soul Soul AM Pop Contemporary Pop/Rock Country-Pop

Also Known As

Leonard Victor Ainsworth

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Dobie Gray

Biography by Steve Huey

Gray first cracked the charts in the mid-1960s with his lively, Motown-like single “The ‘In’ Crowd.”
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