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This is very sad. I've seen "Omar" play many times and he was amazing. Around here a lot of folks flocked to old clubs when we would hear he was playing, even when he was on his last legs. He was on the piano through is last pains.

It is sad to know he probably took his own life.

1 posted on 01/09/2012 8:41:03 PM PST by mnehring
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Some of Omar’s blues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs6uCSGnIiQ


2 posted on 01/09/2012 8:42:29 PM PST by mnehring
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I loved him in Dr. Zhivago........oh wait wrong Omar.

I just him up on You Tube. He seemed very talented indeed. May he have God’s mercy and rest in peace.


3 posted on 01/09/2012 8:44:16 PM PST by GR_Jr. (Even with all their flaws, Newt, Santorum and even Perry are better than Romeny)
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Sad to see him go. Hopefully, a new generation of blues musicians will take up the baton.


5 posted on 01/09/2012 8:48:45 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo1m5H0lDQY


9 posted on 01/09/2012 9:13:49 PM PST by mnehring
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Omar Sharriff was the Van Cliburn of boogie-woogie.

Van Cliburn was the Floyd Cramer of classical.


10 posted on 01/09/2012 9:40:07 PM PST by rogue yam
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How many Omar Sharifs are/were there?

Actor
Bridge Player
Musician

Are they one and the same? Two people? Three?

12 posted on 01/09/2012 10:26:25 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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This might be considered "blasphemy' to Omar Sharriff fans but the story made me think of this outstanding cut from John Baldry...

Don't try to lay no Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll with intro

13 posted on 01/10/2012 5:05:01 AM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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RIP.


15 posted on 01/10/2012 6:50:37 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj
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