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Luca Turilli
Luca Turilli is a guitarist for the Italian symphonic powermetal band Rhapsody of Fire, his own solo project named Luca Turilli, and the newly founded band Luca Turilli's Dreamquest. His style of music is heavily influenced by classical musicians such as Antonio Vivaldi, Niccoló Paganini and Johann Sebastian Bach. He writes songs with great melodies which have that epic feel about them, so most of his songs could be played during a final battle in Lord of the Rings or another epic movie. When Luca was 21 years old, he started the band Thundercross. When they recorded their first demo, they renamed the band to Rhapsody. More...
Steve Lukather
Steve Lukather is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He is best knows for his work with Toto. He has also released solo albums, and has done a lot of sessions with other famous musicians. His work with Toto was mostly pop rock, but his solo work contains a much wider spectrum of genres. They contain rock, progressive music, jazz and funk. Steve Lukather was born Steven Lee Lukather on October 21, 1957 in San Fernando Valley, California. He started out playing keyboards and drums and then learned himself how to play guitar at the age of seven when his father bought him a Kay acoustic guitar and a copy of The beatles album More...
B.B. King
B.B. King is a legendary American Bluesman, gifted guitarist, composer and singer. King has taken part in more than 60 albums, with different artists or on his own. He has won 14 Grammys and received dozens of awards and honors over the years, and he still performs several nights a week. He belongs to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, and stands in the 3rd position of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Riley Ben King, known as B.B. King, was born the 16th of September of 1925 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. His father abandoned the family and his mother died when King was just 9 years old, so he spent the rest of his childhood living with More...
Jeff Healey
Born:- Norman Jeffrey Healey March 25th 1966 - March 2nd 2008. Jeff Healey was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in the West End of the City. As an infant he had been adopted, his adoptive father was a local Firefighter. Healey lost his sight to Cancer (Retinoblastoma) when he was only 8 months old, having both his eyes Surgically removed and artificial ones implanted.
He lived for 38 years Cancer free but developed Sarcoma in his legs (more...
This week... Randy Rhoads!
Randy began playing guitar at the age of 6, he began learning on his grandfathers classical acoustic guitar learning folk music, shortly after he began taking piano lessons till the age of 12 when he became interested in rock guitar! Randy took lessons till the age of 14 then formed his first band ... (more)
