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Phil Wiggins is an American blues harmonica player and singer. He is best known as one half of the blues duo Cephas & Wiggins, with guitarist John Cephas. Wiggins was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the city's Shaw neighborhood. He began playing harmonica at the age of nine, and was influenced by the music of Sonny Terry, Little Walter, and Big Walter Horton. Wiggins has performed with a variety of blues and folk musicians, including Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hammond. He has also performed with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He has released several solo albums, and has been nominated for several Grammy Awards. Wiggins is a member of the National Heritage Fellowship, and was inducted into the Washington Area Music Association Hall of Fame in 2006. He is also a member of the American Federation of Musicians.

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 8 May 1954
Birthday 8 May
Birthplace Washington, D.C., United States
Nationality United States

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2009

Cephas died of natural causes (pulmonary fibrosis) on March 4, 2009. He was 78. He is buried at Quantico National Cemetery in Virginia.

1989

Cephas was a recipient of a 1989 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. In 2017, Wiggins received a National Heritage Fellowship as well.

1986

Their first U.S. release, the album Dog Days of August, was issued by Flying Fish Records in 1986. Two more albums followed from Flying Fish. After they left the label, they released one album for the New York–based Chesky Records and four albums for Alligator Records. They released the album Richmond Blues on Folkways Records in 2008.

1980

In 1980, Cephas & Wiggins were recorded by the German archivists Siegfried Christmann and Axel Kustner. These recordings, their first as a duo, were released the following year as a part of the Living Country Blues USA series on the German label L+R. They also appeared around Washington, D.C., with the Travelling Blues Workshop, which included John Jackson, Archie Edwards, Flora Molton, and Mother Scott.

Until the late 1980s, Cephas made his primary living from carpentry, playing music on the side. In the 1990s, he became a professional musician, sometimes earning money by teaching classes and workshops.

1976

Both musicians were born in Washington D.C. Cephas, who was 24 years older than Wiggins, grew up in Bowling Green, Virginia. They first met at a jam session at the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife in 1976 and played together in Wilbert "Big Chief" Ellis's band. When Ellis died, they decided to continue as a duo.

1930

Cephas & Wiggins were an American acoustic blues duo, composed of the guitarist John Cephas (September 4, 1930 – March 4, 2009) and the harmonica player Phil Wiggins (born May 8, 1954). They were known for playing Piedmont blues.

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