Ralph Peer

Ralph Peer ( May 22nd, 1892 in Kansas City, Missouri; † January 19, 1960 ) was one of the first music producer of country music.

Life

In June 1923 Ralph Peer moved as an employee of the Okeh label to Atlanta to take pictures of black musicians. He was not lucky and took perforce the performances of an old Fiddlers called Fiddlin ' John Carson on. To everyone's surprise, the hillbilly music sold as he termed this music, great.

In 1926, Peer to mean the Victor label. Here it was quite on the hillbilly music interested, so he went in June 1927 with a mobile recording studio in Bristol, Tennessee. As the first band from Tennessee in 1927, he took the highly successful Memphis Jug Band and Cannon's Jug Stompers 1928 on. As peer chronicled in quick succession recordings of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, so should the first superstars of country music to be discovered.

Ralph Peer was the first manager of the music industry, which seriously dealt with what is now called country music. He is also discoverer and promoter of the first big stars. For his achievements, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1984.

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• Music producer
• Country music
• Americans
• Born in 1892
• Died in 1960
• Man