Jimmy Anderson (musician)

{{short description|American artist and musician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Jimmy Anderson

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1932}}

| birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri

| occupation = artist, musician, preacher

}}

Jimmy Anderson (born 1932), clan name Ahhajumba, is a Muscogee–American painter, musician and Christian preacher.{{Cite book|last=King|first=Jeanne Snodgrass|url=http://archive.org/details/americanindianpa00king|title=American Indian painters; a biographical directory|date=1968|publisher=New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation|others=Smithsonian Libraries}} He attended Haskell Institute and then studied art at Bacone College{{Cite book|last1=Lawson|first1=Russell M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ou6yDwAAQBAJ&q=Jimmy+Anderson+Creek|title=Race and Ethnicity in America: From Pre-contact to the Present [4 volumes]|last2=Lawson|first2=Benjamin A.|date=October 11, 2019|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-4408-5097-4|language=en}} with painters Fred Beaver, Pablita Velarde, and Dick West.{{Cite web|last=Herrera|first=Allison|title=WATCH: Our Mini-Doc on Creek Preacher Jimmy Anderson|url=https://www.kosu.org/post/watch-our-mini-doc-creek-preacher-jimmy-anderson|access-date=February 16, 2021|website=www.kosu.org|language=en}} Anderson's paintings in the Oklahoma flatstyle movement were first exhibited in the 1950s.

The Osceola Four

Anderson formed the Osceola Four, a native singing quartet, while studying at Haskell, joining his brother Richard Anderson, Mitcheal Beaver, and J.B. Dreadfulwater. He toured with the group, singing pop songs and spirituals as an evangelical team.{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFgbbzYUbk|title=Preacher Jimmy Anderson|date=May 16, 2016|type=video|language=en|publisher=Association of Independents in Radio|access-date=February 16, 2021}} The group performed on Oklahoma television shows like the Sooner Shindig show, and they appeared on a Spike Jones Orchestra album as well.

Preaching career

After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, Anderson attended seminary school. He later became the preacher at Many Springs Baptist Church in Holdenville, Oklahoma. As the last remaining member of the Osceola Four, Anderson still sings at church in both English and his native Creek language.

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