Tom Turpin
Born: 18th November 1871, Savannah, Georgia, United States
Died: 13th August 1922, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nationality: American
Thomas Million John Turpin was an American composer of ragtime music. Turpin is credited with the first published rag by an African American, his "Harlem Rag" of 1897 (although it was composed by 1892, a year before ragtime's introduction to the world at the 1893 World's Fair).
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