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"I played guitar and piano, and I always thought I was going to be a guitar player," said Lynch. [3] "The drums were sort of a happy accident. I didn't really think that they would be my ticket out of the ghetto. Choosing to be a musician back then was not like choosing a job, but an entire lifestyle.
"Jeunes filles au piano" ("Girls at the Piano" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1892. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. The social history of the piano is the history of the instrument's role in society. The piano was invented at the end of the 17th century, had become widespread in Western society by the end of the 18th, and is still widely played ...
Ralph Eugene Mooney (September 16, 1928 – March 20, 2011) [1] was an American steel guitar player and songwriter, he was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1983. [2] He was the original steel guitarist in Merle Haggard 's band, The Strangers and the most prominent steel guitarist in Waylon Jennings ' band, The Waylors .
In the beginning, they were the band's only members: Whitney Flynn, with a musical background of classical piano lessons at a young age, followed by years as a trumpeter in her junior and high school's marching band. And Jesse Sendejas, a self-taught guitar player, was introduced to music at an early age by his father, a Houston Press music writer.
Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist.He played with some of the most influential blues and rock-and-roll performers of his time and received numerous honors, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame.
Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" [nb 1] Hines (December 28, 1903 [nb 2] – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one source, "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".
Taylor began his musical training as a drummer at age eight [2] but two years later he had picked up both the guitar and his initial piano skills from boogie-woogie pianist-neighbours. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] By the age of 16 he was an orphan and was essentially forced to fund himself - his receding hairline disguising his remarkable youth.
Campilongo was born in South San Francisco, California. [3] When he was nine, he discovered the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix.He became interested in improvisation, saying in one interview, "I knew I liked improvisation and long musical journeys...so I used to buy albums based exclusively on how long the tracks were...That's how I discovered John Coltrane Live in Japan, John McLaughlin Devotion, a ...