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- First sang before the public in his grandmother’s Traveling Soul Spiritualists’ Church at age 7.
- Self taught on guitar by his very early teens.
- High School Drop Out. At age 16.
- 1964 Mayfield wrote the prescient "Keep On Pushin'".
- “Keep On Pushin’” served as a civil rights anthem, a favorite of Martin Luther King.
- His most commercially successful recording was the soundtrack to “Superfly” .
- August 13, 1990 high winds toppled the stage lighting rig and Mayfield was underneath and was paralyzed form the neck down.
- Unable to play guitar (or any other instrument), he could still sing.
- When he died he had six sons, three daughters, and seven grandchildren.
- On March 15, 1999 Curtis Mayfield is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the fourteenth annual induction dinner.
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