Jimmy Hughes

Seeing Jimmy Hughes's name genuinely stirs me. With "Steal Away" in the mid-1960s he helped lay the foundation of what became Muscle Shoals, that hallowed ground of American soul, back when it was still finding its voice. He wasn't a crowned king of the charts; he was one of the people who tilled the soil so others could harvest. He passed in 2026, but a voice on record outlives its singer, and his is woven into the early DNA of a whole musical region. I reserve my deepest respect for pioneers like him, the ones history quietly stands on.

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Name (English)

Jimmy Hughes

Name (Japanese)

ジミー・ヒューズ

Reading

じみー・ひゅーず

Born

February 3, 1938 – May 20, 2026

Origin

Temecula, California, United States

Occupation

musician / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Hughes%20(singer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5931186

Tags

• California
• musician
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.