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Bluesman, throat singer Paul Pena dead at 55
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All About Jazz
SAN FRANCISCO --Paul Pena, a San Francisco blues guitarist who wrote one of the biggest hits for the Steve Miller Band, has died. He was 55.
Pena is perhaps best known for writing Jet Airliner," a Top 10 hit in 1977. He's lived off the royalties from that song.
Pena also is familiar to audiences for the 1999 Academy Award-nominated documentary Genghis Blues," which tells the story of how he took up Tuvan throat singing.
Pena died Saturday from complications ...
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