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Charles Hardin

also recorded as Buddy Holly

real name Charles Hardin Holley

Charles Hardin is credited on 2,187 releases across 434 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,187

Credits

434

Albums

8

Decades active

871

In collections

Biography

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Born: September 7, 1936, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.
Died: February 3, 1959, Grant Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, U.S.
Note: This profile is for pseudonymous credits using Hardin in the surname position.
He died when he was 22 years old in a plane crash on en route to Moorhead, Minnesota, USA along with Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson alias Big Bopper and the airplane pilot. This day is referred to by many as "The Day The Music Died" which are lyric from the song by American Pie.

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Credited work

2,187 releases · 434 albums · active 1957–2025

  • Performance · 2,812
  • Other credits · 7

Studios: Regent Sound Studios · Royal Albert Hall · Winterland · Fillmore East

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