PENNIMAN, RICHARD (LITTLE RICHARD
). Rock n
roll singer ( in Macon, Georgia). He sang in a gospel church choir as a child. He began performing professionally when he was fifteen. In 1951 he won first prize in a talent show at a theater in Atlanta, Georgia, and the same year recorded his first songs. Thereafter he toured with various groups, appearing mostly in small nightclubs, but including also a medicine show. In 1954 he recorded a song, Tutti frutti...