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Davell Crawford Comes of Age

December 1, 1995 by: Jason Berry

The piano whiz kid, who just turned 20, says "Let Them Talk': as his first album demonstrates, he's too busy living up to the legacy of Sugarboy Crawford, his fabled grandfather.

 

Davell Crawford was thirteen the night the Dixie Cups sang his grandpa's song-May 8, 1988. Waiting backstage at the New Orleans Hilton before his set, watching three women singing "Iko, Iko, Iko - Iko anday" the boy wonder turned livid. “They're taking my grandpa's song. "I'm not going, on!" he ex...

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