Biography
Riff Ruffin
Real name: Edward Nehemiah Ruffin
Effective period / Period of releases: 1955 - 1966
Jazz and rhythm & blues singer and guitarist, born 24 May 1920, died Hopewell, Virginia, February 1991.Ruffin first recorded for the Spark label in Los Angeles, California, in 1955. Sessions followed for a number of West Coast companies 1955-1957, with sessions for Fire in New York 1959 and Duke in 1965.