Bobby Rush (born November 10, 1940) is an Americanblues and R&B musician, composer and singer. He was born Emmit Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana. His family relocated to Chicago in 1953, where he became part of the local blues scene. He is a purveyer of the Soul blues sound. He sometimes also uses elements from rap and funk. 2004's "FolkFunk" was a return to a more rootsier sound and came out on a German label. He appears in the mini series The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese. November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B) was coined as a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues. ... Homer is a town located in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the early late 1960s and 1970s and combining eliments of soul music and urban contemporary music. ... Martin Scorsese at Cannes in 2002 Martin Scorsese (born November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York, USA) is an American film director. ...
Discography
1979 Rush Hour
1982 Sue
1984 Gotta Have Money
1985 What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
BobbyRush: That's a hard question, because when you say bluesman, that covers a lot of areas.
BobbyRush: When you see Tom Jones -- they accept him shaking his butt on the stage, but when I do it I'm a dirty old fl man. That's just the way it is. I'm hoping this Scorcese thing will enlighten people to what I do.
Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23, 1946) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 1st District of Illinois (map).
In 2000, Rush defeated challenger Barack Obama, who was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, in the Democratic primary for his seat.
On July 15, 2004, Rush became the second sitting Congressman, after Charles Rangel, to be arrested in as many days for protesting alleged human rights violations at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
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