Donal pearson
Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson Jr. (Agusta 17, 1932 - Agusta 4, 1980)  ya kasance dan wasan jazz na Amurka kuma mai waƙa. Kamfanin Allmusic ya kwatanta shi a matsayin "mai muhimmanci wajen gyara ja-gora mai tsanani na labarin Blue Note a shekara ta 1960 a matsayin mai ƙera sauti." 

Pearson an haife shi Columbus Calvin Pearson Jr. a Atlanta, Georgia, a kasar Amurka, ga Columbus Calvin da Emily Pearson. Kawunsa ne ya ba shi suna "Duke", wanda ya fi sha'awa sosai ga Duke Ellighton. Kafin ya kai shekara shida, mahaifiyarsa ta soma koyar da shi game da piyano.

Ya yi nazarin kayan (piyano) har sai ya kai shekara goma sha biyu, lokacin da ya dauki sha'awar kayan ƙarfe: mellophone, ƙahon baritone da kuma a ƙarshe ya yi ƙaho. Yana son ƙaho sosai har ta makarantar sakandare da kuma makarantar jami'a ya yi watsi da piyano. Ya halarci makarantar Clark College sa'adda yake hadda sautin kida a rukunoni da ke yankin Atlanta. lokacin da yake soja na Amirka, a lokacin da aka zaɓe shi a shekara ta 1953 zuwa 1954, ya ci gaba da buga sauti kuma ya haɗu da Wynton Kelly, mai waƙar piyano.

Pearson da kansa ya yi wa'azi a wani tambaya a shekara ta 1959 cewa ya "lalata sosai da piyano mai kyau na Kelly" har ya yanke shawarar sake canja piyano. Hakanan, kamar matsalolin hakora sun tilasta masa ya bar kayan aiki na ƙarfe

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Mutuwan 1980