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Article: AHMET ERTEGUN\ TURKISH IMMIGRANT BECAME TOP MOGUL OF AMERICAN MUSIC.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2006
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Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish ambassador's son whose ear for the culture of black America would make his Atlantic Records a legendary fount of 20th-century popular music, died Thursday with his family at his bedside. He was 83.
Ertegun had slipped into a coma following a head injury he suffered in a fall in October while backstage at a Rolling Stones show celebrating the 60th birthday of former President Bill Clinton. Ertegun never recovered from the injury.
Ertegun was a true titan of the music industry across decades -- his upstart Atlantic label became the home of R&B music in the 1950s with Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, the Drifters and the ...
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