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Howard Saul Becker was born into a Jewish family on April 18, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Allan Becker (April 2, 1902 - March 27, 1988) and Donna Becker (born Bertha Goldberg; December 31, 1904 - 1997). His great-grandfather, Gershon Movsha Becker, immigrated to the United States from Lithuania. Becker began playing piano at an early age and by age 15 worked as a pianist in bars and strip joints and, later, with a campus band at Northwestern University. According to

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