January 27, 2012
Eric Bibb Pictures {0}
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Eric Bibb (* August 16 1951 in New York City ) is an American blues musician and singer-songwriter , who almost exclusively with acoustic guitar occurs (and hat) and several times for the Handy Blues Music Award and has been nominated. His musical style, in which he often fingerpicking using mixed techniques, acoustic blues with folk , gospel , R & B and Soul . He is the son of folk singer and actor Leon Bibb , with whom he recorded two albums together well.
As the son of Leon Bibbs Eric grew up in New York in a musically mainly by folk music dominated environment in which he, among others, the musician friends of his father – like Pete Seeger , Bob Dylan and Odetta – and his uncle, the famous jazz – pianist and composer John Lewis , had contact. His godfather, the artist and civil rights activist Paul Robeson , dedicated in 2006, Eric, along with his father, the album Praising Peace – A Tribute to Paul Robeson . After he had begun at the age of 7 years, folk guitar playing, he learned from 13 Age on a high school with an artistic and musical focus and vocals and other instruments like bass , classical guitar and piano .
Bibb was in his youth influenced by the strong folk scene of Greenwich Village marked the time and sees today is not necessarily as a blues player, but stressed that he saw no great difference between folk and blues. was the age of 16 years He finally as a guitarist in the constant companion volume on the TV talent show Someone New added his father. influenced during this time it musically, his uncle John Lewis, who as a jazz musician Miles Davis had worked and later a long time in Modern Jazz Quartet would play, and brought him before all the blues close.
A little later he also played guitar for the Negro Ensemble Company and was first a study of subjects Russian and psychology at Columbia University on.
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