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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix (James Marshall Hendrix), 1942-70, African-American rock guitarist, b. Seattle, Wash. Hendrix, in his short musical career, was known for an innovative and extremely influential guitar style that involved the explosive, yet often sensitively nuanced, use of feedback, distortion, and... Read more |
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Ronald Isley
Ronald Isley1941– Singer, composer Singer/composer Ronald Isley has enjoyed a successful career in popular music for more than 50 years. As lead singer and composer for the Isley Brothers, Isley recorded a long string of hit singles including "Shout," "This Old Heart of Mine," "It's Your Thing,"... Read more |
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Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry Chuck Berry (born 1926), creator of the "duck walk" and known as the "father of rock and roll," has been a major influence on popular music. Even though his career and life reached great peaks and declined to low valleys, he still prevails in music while his contemporaries have vanished.... Read more |
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Bela Fleck
Fleck, Béla Banjoist, composer Béla Fleck is an acknowledged master of the five-string banjo. An unassuming artist whose virtuoso performances fuse jazz, rock, Irish balladry, and bluegrass, Fleck cannot possibly be confined to a strict genre or even considered "new grass." His is an... Read more |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitarist The appearance of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble at the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival signaled the beginning of yet another blues revival and heralded the arrival of another guitar hero. Vaughan's mixture of Texas blues and Jimi Hendrix-inspired rock helped open... Read more |
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David Henderson
David Henderson1942- Poet, author A well-respected though perhaps under-recognized poet, David Henderson was a founder of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s. He has been an active member of New York's Lower East Side art community for more than four decades. Henderson has published four volumes... Read more |
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Chris Whitley
Chris WhitleySinger, songwriter, guitarist Creating an original musical language that blended Delta-based blues with innovative rock, Chris Whitley etched out a unique place for himself as a songwriter and performer. He was heralded as one of the greatest slide guitarists of the 1990s and as a... Read more |
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Caetano Veloso
CAETANO VELOSO Born: Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Veloso; Santo Amaro da Purificacao, Bahia, Brazil, 7 August 1942 Genre: World Best-selling album since 1990: Tropicalista 2 (1993) Brazilian singer/songwriter Caetano Veloso is a creative musical force with few peers. He is a prolific artist... Read more |
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Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway 1945–1979 Singer, songwriter Aspiring Gospel Singer Found Early Success Plagued By Personal Difficulties A Promising Career Cut Short Selected discography Sources In 1979, soul icon Donny Hathaway tragically fell fifteen stories to his death. Like many other talented members... Read more |
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James Blood Ulmer
James Blood Ulmer Guitarist, flutist, singer From South Carolina to Detroit Studied with Ornette Coleman Separated Jazz Playing from Blues Preaching Selected discography Sources Guitarist, flutist, and vocalist James Blood Ulmer once joked that he cannot find where his music is located in record... Read more |
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