Biography
Percy Sledge (born
November 25,
1941 in
Leighton, Alabama) is a
US-American
R&B and
soul performer. Percy Sledge worked in the fields in Leighton before he worked as an orderly at
Colbert County Hospital in
Sheffield. By the mid-
60s, Sledge was touring the Southeast with the
Esquires Combo on weekends and working at the hospital. A former patient, who was a friend of Producer
Quin Ivy,...
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