Monthly Archives: January 2009
Frank “Sugar Chile” Robinson
Detroit dynamite, “Sugar Chile” Robinson. Born Frankie Robinson, the youngest of six children, in Detroit in 1940, “Sugar Chile” began pounding on the family piano as a toddler – he reputedly banged out a recognizable version of Erskine Hawkins’ Tuxedo Junction at the age of two – and by 1945 he had been “discovered” […]