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Williams was born Joseph Goreed in Cordele on December 12, 1918, and moved to Chicago at the age of three with his mother, Anne Gilbert, and his grandmother, Mittie Gilbert.
Williams was exposed to the local blues acts in Chicago's Southside and, perhaps more important, to the big bands that toured throughout the North.
Williams was known as a jazz singer, but he was equally comfortable with the blues.
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