Fats Domino

Fats Domino sits at the very foundation of rock and roll, and yet what moves me isn't the 65 million records or the Hall of Fame induction. It's the sheer, unforced joy of that rolling New Orleans piano. Born into a French Creole family in 1928, he made music that never postured; it simply felt good, and that ease influenced everyone from Elvis to the Beatles. The honors, the National Medal of Arts, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, were all earned. But Domino's real monument is the sound itself: drop the needle and the whole city starts to dance again.

Name (English)

Fats Domino

Name (Japanese)

ファッツ・ドミノ

Reading

ふぁっつ・どみの

Born

February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Occupation

singer / pianist / jazz musician / songwriter / composer

Awards & achievements

• National Medal of Arts
• 1987 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 1986 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.fatsdominoofficial.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats%20Domino
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209586

Tags

• Louisiana
• singer
• pianist
• jazz musician

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.