Charles Manson

Charles Manson was a criminal and a musician. Born November, purported as 11/12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, he died November 19, 2017 in Bakersfield, California.

He played a mix of styles, including acoustic, folk, and spoken word.

He is known in connection with the 1969 “Tate-LaBianca” murders and other crimes, for which he was convicted on a total of nine counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. His 1971 death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1972, when California temporarily abolished the death penalty.