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Willie "Bill" Pinkney (August 15, 1925 – July 4, 2007) was an American performer and singer. Pinkney was often said to be the last surviving original member of The Drifters , who achieved international fame with numerous hit records.
Pinkney's voyage around the world lasted 22 months. He traveled approximately 27,000 miles (43,000 km). [11] He departed from Boston on August 5, 1990, sailing first to Bermuda, then along the eastern South American coastline, across the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town, South Africa, across the Indian Ocean to Hobart, Tasmania, across the South Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn, and up the eastern ...
Sep. 6—MYSTIC — Bill Pinkney had already sailed solo around the world via Cape Horn ― the first Black man to do so ― when he joined the Mystic Seaport Museum's board of trustees in 1994.
Captain Bill Pinkney, the second African American man to sail around the world solo and the first via Cape Horn, has died in Atlanta at age 87, Atlanta News First reports.
Bill Pinkney (1925–2007), American performer and singer, member of The Drifters; Bill Pinkney (sailor) (1935–2023), first African American to sail around the world solo; Bob Pinkney (c. 1934–2017), Canadian football player; Brian Pinkney (born 1961), American illustrator, son of illustrator Jerry Pinkney, husband of Andrea Davis Pinkney
Pinkney’s work inspired historians like Nadege Green, the founder of the digital archive Black Miami-Dade. “I looked up to her as a community historian,” Green wrote on Instagram Thursday ...
William Pinckney (April 27, 1915 – July 21, 1976) was a United States Navy sailor who was the second African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, [1] [2] [3] the second-highest decoration for valor in combat after the Medal of Honor. [4]
The Drifters, The Swallows, Bill Pinkney, The Flyers, The Sprites Musical artist Robert Raymond Hendricks (February 22, 1938 – March 25, 2022) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an American R&B singer who charted two hits in the late 1950s.