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Rocker Ronnie Hawkins, Dies at 87, Patron of Canadian Rock | Entertainment News
TORONTO (AP) — Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who turned a patron of the Canadian audio scene following going north and recruiting a handful of area musicians later on identified as the Band has died. His wife Wanda confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after an ailment. He was 87. “He went peacefully and he seemed as handsome as at any time,” she explained by telephone. Born just two days after Elvis Presley, the Huntsville indigenous friends known as “The Hawk” (He also nicknamed himself “The King of Rockabilly” and “Mr. Dynamo”) was a hell-raiser with a massive jaw and a stocky develop.…