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When rock and roll hit it was a major racial barrier torn asunder. White kids listening to black artists and black kids listening to whites.

There were black rock innovators at this time, (Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, etc.) as well as whites, (Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc.). To my knowledge however, there were no even moderately popular biracial musicians.

Considering the relatively large amount of mixed race people in the United States at the time, I'm wondering why there were no biracial/multiracial rock 'n' roll stars during the 1950's.

Any thoughts on this or any info on biracial musicians from OTL that could fill this void in an AH?

And an additional query: What are the effects of a major innovator (we're talking Elvis level of popularity here) in rock's infancy being a biracial person?
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