Biography jimmy ruffin

The Jimmy Ruffin Biography -
Searching for Light

David Ruffin provided more professional and personal fireworks. This Jimmy Ruffin biography salutes the less spectacular but still-admirable accomplishments of the older sibling.

Jimmy beat David into the world on May 7, 1939 in Collinsville, Mississippi.

With a minister father and musical genes that would also develop in David and cousin Melvin Franklin, Jimmy's spirituality and sense of song merged in church gospel music.

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As a session singer in the 1960s, Jimmy Ruffin arrived at other settings bearing his gifts. One of those places was called Motown, which assigned him to the Miracle subsidiary in 1961.

The U.S. soon roped him into the Army, so like Miracle itself, his stint with the label didn't last long. Upon his return to civilian life, Motown approached him with a tempting Temptations offer, but he suggested that a different Ruffin--David--fill the vacancy left by Elbridge Bryant.

Jimmy Ruffin ended up on the Soul label, WBSS Media-Jimmy Ruffin JYTAG