Stage Name Stories: Sun Ra

Born: Herman Poole Blount

What's in a Name: The eccentric jazzman, who claimed he was from Saturn, named himself after the ancient Egyptian sun god. Also answered, somewhat less exotically, to the childhood nickname Sonny.






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