Blues Legends

Josh D. Muddy Waters real name is McKinley Morganfield. He grew up listening to the blues. In 1943 he moved to Chicago to show the world about his amazing voice of the blues. Then when he went to Chicago a record dealer gave him a deal so he can have a real band.

WILL- Ray Charles was born on September 23, 1930.His real name was Ray Charles Robinson. His first performance was at a cafe in Florida. He grew up during the Great Depression and had visual problems. At age 7 he completely lost his sight. His father died when he was 10 and his mother died when he was 15.Ray's family moved to Florida when he was an infant. In Florida he attended a school for the Deaf and Blind called the St. Augustine. At that school he continued to play the piano. He also learned to play saxophone and the clarinet. Early on his teachers saw that he had the gift of music. They also saw that he compensated for his lack of sight by learning how to listen with great care which helped him learn the music that he heard. He left school at 15 to began his career of a professional musician. Almost immediately he began developing a unique style of music.

Jacob - Fats started performing at the age of 14. His music combines ''Boogie Woogie'' piano with a New Orleans beat. Fats was extremely popular in the fifties and early sixties. His shy charm and warm smile reflected his mood while he was playing. He made rhythm and blues music palatable to a wider audience, as his style represented the calmer edge of the spectrum, in contrast to incendiary rock artists such as Little Richard.

Corrynn - Mahalia Jackson started signing at church when she was little. She dropped out of school when she was in eighth grade,and did people's laundry. Her first record was released in 1976.

Mia-John Lee Hooker was born Clarksdale Mississippi on August 22, 1917. As a blues singer and guitarist, he began his career in Detroit in 1948 with the release of Boogi Chillun, the biggest of his several hit records. He toured continually and among the deep blues artists enjoyed an unusually successful career appearing in concerts and on recordings with many of the figures in rock. He learned how to play guitar from his stepfather. He had a great interest in Gospel music.

Etta James was born in Los Angeles on January 25,1938. Her real name is Jamestta Hawkins. She started her career in 1954. She became popular with hits like " At Last" and " Tell Mama". She won six Grammy Awards and seventeen blues music Awards. She had many different illnesses later in life and died from leukima on January 20, 2012.

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Reverend Gary Davis was a towering figure. As a finger-style guitarist he developed a complex approach to pucking that influenced generations of players. Early musical experiences at Center Raven Baptist Church in Gray Court,South Carolina, was at the core of strong religious convictions that helped him cope with blindness. In 1933 he was ordained as minister of the Free Baptist Connection Church in Washington,North Carolina. For years he toured as a singing gospel preacher and also sang on the streets.

Nathan S -In 1956 Aretha Franklin made her first album as 14 years old and the album was the gospel sounds of Aretha Franklin. When Aretha was a child and young teenager,she sang in her fathers church choir. Aretha came to appreciate the power and beauty of gospel, and that influenced her singing career.Aretha's father was able to introduce Aretha to several gospel singers that guided her through her young career.

Gianna Moreno-George " buddy" Guy is a five time Grammy-Award winning American blues guitarist and singer. He is considered an important exponent of Chicago blues. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many other guitarists. Guy's music can be very creative from many traditional and deepest blues.

Zach g/Paul butterfeild was born in December 17 1942. He was the white person to play a harmonica and develop a original style and place him in the penethon of blues greats. white Americans treated blues with alot of respect. It is impossible to over estimate the doors that he opened. Paul butterfeild was a great blues singer.

Caitlin

Jimi Hendrix was part of the 27 club which means player he died at the age of 27. He was a famous guitar . He was powerful vocalist and wrote songs. Some of his well known songs are Jinx blues, Devil got my women and Motherless child. He was known as a rock and role music but no one could deny him as a blues singer. Jimi's real name is James Marshal Hendrix. He was born in Seattle on November 27, 1942. At the age of 16, Jimi was thrown out of school for holding the hand of a white girl in class. His mother died when Jimi was 15 the same time as Jimi began to take a serious interest in music and playing the guitar. When he was 12 he got his first electric guitar the instrument which was the next 16 years of his life. Then in late 1965 he formed his first band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. They worked the Village clubs where he was seen by other musicians who immediately recognized his talent, and word of this young virtuoso reached ex-Animals bassist Chas Chandler. Chas was so impressed after hearing him play he offered to become his manager and persuaded Jimi to accompany him back to England. After 14 months as a paratrooper, learning a lot about falling and flying, he suffered an injury and was discharged. He decided to enter the music field. The following four years were hard work touring the States playing back-up guitar for various R&B bands including Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, the Isley Brothers and the late King Curtis among others. The conditions were not suited to his radical temperament and eventually he was drawn to New York 's Greenwich Village where he recorded with the Isley Brothers, Curtis Knight and various other artists. In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the world of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before. Jimi Hendrix wanted a guitar early on. Before acquiring his first real instrument, he "played" guitar o a broom and on Hendrix had two brothers, Leon and Joseph, and two sisters, Kathy and Pamela. one-stringed ukulele. At last Al got his son a guitar, and the twelve year-old Jimi began to teach himself to play. Jimi Hendrix had two brothers, Leon and Joseph, and two sisters, Kathy and Pamela.

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Nathan Cima, The Blues Brothers formed in 1978 after watching each other play. They really took off in 1980 when they made there movie "The Blues Brothers". They started to make more albums after there movie.

Zella

His career launched in the 1990s but he didn't get hooked on the blues until he witnessed Albert King perform. He joined a band with Albert Collins in the late 1970s before his career took off. He was also in a band called the Blues breakers.