>>21896473>allegedly had a huge careerHe did.
>>21896480>Were any of his songs internationally successful?They were.
Dude simply dropped off the radar for long enough for an entire new generation to grow up, never knowing of him.
Honestly the same thing could be said of the UK in general, they were giants in the world of music and now they're almost irrelevant.
Global popular music has never been so US (and by extension nigger) dominated.