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Obadiah Carter

1925–1994

United States

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Obadiah Hawthorne Carter (December 12, 1925 – June 30, 1994) was an American musician who was a member of the "5" Royales, an R & B group in the 1940s and 1950s. Carter was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the youngest son of John Carter, a gardener, and Octavia, a laundress. His father died when Obadiah was young, and he and his mother had to move in with his older sister, Lottie, and her husband.

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