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When did Frankie Lymon start making music?
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Frankie Lymon's first song “Who Can Explain? by Frankie Lymon” released in December 1956.
Best known as the boy soprano lead singer of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, which had the hit Why Do Fools Fall in Love, in 1956. He went solo in mid-1957, whereupon both his career and those of the Teenagers fell into decline. At age 25, he was found dead of a heroin overdose.
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