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Biography
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Virgil Johnson
Effective period / Period of releases: 1961 - 1962
Doo wop - soul singer - songwriterBorn on 29 December 1935 in Cameron, Texas, U.S.
Died on 24 February 2013
He was the leader of the The Velvets. He formed them while he was a teacher at eighth grade English at Blackshear Junior High School in Odessa, TX, when he heard some of his students harmonizing.