Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp

Acting
14 Movies

Born

May 24, 1937

Place of Birth

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

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Biography

Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 7 years old when his family moved to Philadelphia, in the black neighborhood of "Brick Yard". He started playing the banjo with his father, then he studied piano and saxophone at the same time as he did his secondary studies at Germantown College. He entered university, got into theatre, frequented novelists and poets like Leroy Jo…

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