Dean Reed
(1938-1986)
singer, musician, actor, writer, director
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Dean Cyril Reed (September 22, 1938 – June 13, 1986) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, director, and social activist who lived a great part of his adult life in South America and then in East Germany. Nicknamed the Red Elvis, Reed was the best-selling Western performer in communist countries, with his songs often topping the local charts, and millions of his records were sold in the Eastern Bloc and elsewhere mostly under the Melodiya label. He never renounced his U.S. citizenship, despite often denouncing the policy of the U.S. government, and was seen by the Western media as a threat and as a revolutionary artist.
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Dean Cyril Reed 22 September 1938 Denver, Colorado, USA
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13 June 1986 (aged 47) East Berlin, East Germany, now Berlin, Germany
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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