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Otis Rush, Chicago blues legend, dies at 84

- (AP)

Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose music influenced artists from Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton to Led Zeppelin, died Saturday at the age of 84. He succumbed to complicati­ons from a stroke he suffered in 2003. Rush catapulted to internatio­nal fame in 1956 with his first recording of which reached No 6 on the Billboard charts.

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