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Date of Birth
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13-October-1940
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Place of Birth
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Little Rock
(Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States of America, Area code 501)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Pharaoh Sanders, Sanders, Pharoah, Farrell Sanders
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Profession
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Musician, Bandleader, Saxophonist
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Pharoah Sanders is a Grammy Award-winning American jazz saxophonist.
Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Sanders is an important figure in the development of free jazz; Albert Ayler famously said: "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost."
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