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Active

1950s - 1980s

Formed

1949 in Newport News, VA

Genre

R&B Blues

Styles

Doo Wop Early R&B East Coast Blues Regional Blues

Group Members

Rudy West Bernie West Dickie Smith Dickie Threat Gene Moore Maryland Pierce Ramon Loper Raphael Ingram Ripley Ingram Ulysses K. Hicks

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The Five Keys

Biography by Jim Dunn

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R&B vocal group that helped shape the rhythm & blues revolution of the early 1950s.
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