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Eric Victor Burdonis an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band Warand for his aggressive stage performance.

Burdon was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's list - The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

Sometimes referred to as a "black singer trapped inside a white skin," Eric Burdon achieved international fame by belting out bluesy rock numbers with the Animals in the mid-1960s.

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His raw, hard-edged vocals were a key ingredient in a number of hits for the band in their native United Kingdom and abroad. After the original Animals disbanded, Burdon made his mark as a vocalist with the black band War.

While growing up in Newcastle upon Tyne, a port city just south of England's border with Scotland, Burdon had no burning desire to be a singer.

His first exposure to the music that would hook him came at about age 12, when a merchant seaman who lived in his building let him lis