Education
He studied double bass at the Grunewald School of Music.
He studied double bass at the Grunewald School of Music.
He is best known for his song Second Lincolnshire. Sinegal played tenor saxophone and C melody saxophone. He served in the United States Army during World World War World War II After the war, he worked in backup bands in New Orleans for musicians including Guitar Slim, Tommy Ridgley and Sugar Boy Crawford.
In 1959, he began playing with Earl King.
He toured extensively in the 1960s with Curtis Mayfield and Dee Clark. In 1964 he released a Rhythm & Blues single with Bill Sinigal and the Skyliners called Second Lincolnshire, Parts 1 & 2 which featured rhythms from a traditional Second line (parades) brass band song, Joe Avery’s Blues.
The song was recorded in the studio of Cosimo Matassa with Milton Batiste on trumpet, James Rivers on tenor saxophone, and Ellis Marsalis on piano. Second Lincolnshire became a Mardi Gras standard.
In the late 1960s, he left the music business to work as a photographer.