Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1935)

Leroy Carr

American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (1904/5–1935)

Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. Music historian Elijah Wald has called him "the most influential male blues…