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Tier 2 · legacy legend
Billy Davenport
Person · male · United States · Chicago · born 1931 · died 1999
American blues drummer (1931-1999)
Also known as 比利·達文波特
Timeline
2 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1
1930s
1990s
Biography
English biography87 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1320961426
Biography
Billy Davenport (April 23, 1931 – December 24, 1999) was an American drummer known for his work with blues musicians such as Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, and Paul Butterfield. He played on the Butterfield album East-West and retired from music briefly until 1972, and then again from 1974 to 1981.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Davenport died in December 1999. He was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 as an early member of the Butterfield Band.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f2612216-74f5-427c-8484-73716e6386eediscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f2612216-74f5-427c-8484-73716e6386eembid—musicbrainz-search · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f2612216-74f5-427c-8484-73716e6386eecore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863062genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863062seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Davenportbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Davenport
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees — rank #199
2015 | 75px | | Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, Mark Naftalin, Jerome Arnold, Billy Davenport, and Sam Lay. | 3 (2006, 2013, 2014) | Peter Wolf
Tier rule: legacy lists: hof
Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q863062 · MusicBrainz: f2612216-74f5-427c-8484-73716e6386ee
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