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Mighty Hannibal (l) with Elton John | Getty Images
Singer, songwriter, actor, anti-drugs campaigner and record producer James Timothy Shaw “The Mighty Hannibal” was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 9 August 1939. By 1954 he was a singer in a doo wop group. Two of his friends joined Gladys Knight and The Pips. He moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and began singing with Johnny Otis. He subsequently based himself in New York. His sight deteriorated in 2002 and he died after problems breathing at his home in New York on 20 January 2014.
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