Bobby “Blue” Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2012. He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described him as “second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis’s Beale Street blues scene”.
The late American blues singer Robert Calvin Bland, who is known professionally as Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. He was described as “among the great storytellers of blues and soul music who created tempestuous arias of love, betrayal, and resignation, set against roiling, dramatic orchestrations, and left the listener drained but awed.” He was sometimes referred to as the “Lion of the Blues” and as the “Sinatra of the Blues”. His music was also influenced by Nat King Cole.
Bobby “Blue” Bland children: Meet Rodd Bland, Patrice Moses
Rodd Bland and Patrice Moses are the two children born to Bland by his wife name Willie Martin Bland before meeting his death on June 23, 2013, at his home in Germantown, Tennessee, a suburb of Memphis.
Rodd Bland is a musician who has followed in the footsteps of his father. He rose from the age of 3 learning traditional blues from his father’s drummers, John “Jab O” Starks, Harold “Peanie” Portier, and Rodd’s brother, Tony Coleman, to become an exceptional band cornerstone rounding out any genre.
Rodd Spends much of his time touring live and has contributed to sessions with talent such as Ian Siegal, and Darren Jay, and The Delta Souls. Rodd appears alongside his father in Austin City Limits and Music Voyager. As well as the documentary, Take Me To The River, playing with his father and Yo Gotti. Furthering with Sundance Film Festival concert for the movie anchoring the drum throne with The Hi Rhythm Band, playing behind STAX legends William Bell and Ben Cauley Jr. as well as Oscar award-winning rapper Frayser Boy and Al Kapone.
Patrice Moses on the other hand does not have much to talk about. She is just known to be the daughter of Bobby Bland and Willie Mae Bland.
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