Historical Marker
Castro "Mr. Sipp" Coleman
McComb, Pike County · Mississippi
Erected by Mississippi Blues Commission, 2024
Mr. Sipp is short for Mister Mississippi, and the name came late. Castro Coleman spent years as a gospel guitarist, with the Williams Brothers and his own True Believers, before turning to blues in 2012. He won the Vicksburg Blues Society's regional contest that fall, reached the finals in Memphis in January 2013, and took the International Blues Challenge in 2014. In 2016 he became the first blues artist to leave a handprint on the Wall of Fame in Frederikshavn, Denmark, and in 2025 the Blues Music Awards named him B. B. King Entertainer of the Year.
Where it stands
31.24381, -90.45206 · Directions
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