Word: otha
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...Born Otha Ellas Bates in Mississippi, Diddley moved to Chicago as a child and learned to make violins and guitars in vocational school before dropping out to play music. When Chess Records showed an interest, a harmonica player supposedly suggested the stage name Bo Diddley, slang for a bowlegged fool. A few days later, Diddley made his first professional recording, Bo Diddley; it rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and introduced the world to rock's defining rhythm, the Bo Diddley "hambone" beat--bum-bum-bum, bum bum--that's fueled everything from Buddy Holly...