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Bluesman, throat singer Paul Pena dead at 55

Bluesman, throat singer Paul Pena dead at 55

Source: 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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