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    Fillmore Slim

    American blues vocalist, guitarist and pimp

    Musical artist

    Clarence Sims (born November 7, 1934), best known by his stage name, Fillmore Slim, is an American blues vocalist and guitarist with five albums to his credit.

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    • During the 1960s and 1970s, he was also a known pimp in San Francisco,[1] referred to several times as "The West Coast Godfather of the Game" and "The Pope of Pimping".[2]

    Early life

    Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, Fillmore began learning about the blues at an early age.

    "I done lived the blues," he once said in an interview. "The blues is about picking cotton, working in the fields, living in the streets, and you know I did all these things."[1]

    In 1955, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career, playing by himself in the street and later starting a band called Eddy N and The Blues Slayers.

    During this time he had a relationship with Etta James before she achieved her fame as