Buddy Holly

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Buddy Holly
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Birthday September 7th, 1936
From Lubbock, Texas, USA
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Debut Match
Buddy Holly Pin
L
Scatman John
8chanmania LXXXI
First Victory

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First Championship

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Charles Hardin Holley, better known by his stage name Buddy Holly, was an US American singer-songwriter.

Bio[edit | edit source]

Born as the youngest of five children in the musically-inclined Holley family, Buddy originally had a background based on country music and talent shows. He formed his first band at the ripe age of fifteen, but as with many of his contemporaries, the prude and often authoritarian everyday culture in the southern US of the late 1940s awoke a somewhat of a rebellious streak in him. Turns out, he wanted to rock.

So Buddy, already mightily impressed by Elvis Presley after getting to play as one of his opening acts, did exactly that. And jumped right into the then-nascent genre of Rock'n'Roll. True, him looking like the wet dream of every mother-in-law might seem unorthodox by modern standards, but back then, this was as close to open anarchy as you could come without getting called a commie by McCarthy.

Sadly, Holly (alongside fellow Rock'n'Roll pioneers Ritchie Valens and J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson) met his untimely demise when the plane he was travelling on didn't fly so good. The resulting loss was so profound that legendary folk singer Don McLean would later dub it The Day Music Died, and the name stuck around ever since.

In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]

Buddy Holly fought in the post-mortem 8chanmania LXXXI. Supported and advised by the late spirits of Neil Peart, Keith Flint, and Elvis Presley, he and the equally late Scatman John held a brief metaphysical debate as to whether or not music truly dies with its maker. Since said argument went nowhere, they soon moved to more time-honored methods to settle the dispute.

Although Buddy ended up getting defeated, the Scatman's win proved that music does not, in fact, die with the maker. He thus vowed to win the tournament for every deceased artist whose tune still keeps people going.