Guy Davis (musician)

Guy Davis ( born May 12, 1952 in New York City, New York) is an American blues guitarist, singer and actor. He is the son of actor and civil rights activist Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Early career

Davis, who was the age of 13 inspired by a performance by the famous blues guitarist Buddy Guy to your own music career, in 1978 was given the opportunity, his debut album Dreams About Life to publish on the famous Folkways label of Moses Asch. The early 80s, he began his acting career, including a recurring role in the soap opera One Life to Live. He also landed a starring role in 1984 in Beat Street, a movie about the hip-hop and breakdance culture.

Theater

In the following years he was looking for ways to his two greatest passions, blues music and acting together. He finally succeeded in from 1991 through participation in various plays and musicals. In addition to his involvement in Mulebone, the Broadway version of a play by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes with music by Taj Mahal, was especially two years later, his portrayal of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson in the off- Broadway production of Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil enthusiastically received by critics and awarded the 1993 Keeping the Blues Alive by the Award ( KBA), the Blues Foundation in the category Theatre, which was presented to him by Robert Cray. In the spring of 1995, he played along with his famous parents, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, in Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy, a play about the African-American culture and music, Guy Davis had written along with them.

Music

As of 1995, Guy Davis was primarily focused on his musical career. 17 years after his debut, he took the live album Stomp Down the Rider for the first time a regular LP, this time for Red House Records. Here he presented his version of contemporary country blues.

Several of his other albums have been nominated for various categories of Handy Awards, a Grammy similar price, but especially for blues music.

Discography (selection)

  • Dreams About Life (1978 )
  • Stomp Down the Rider ( 1995)
  • Call Down the Thunder ( 1996)
  • You Do not Know My Mind (1998)
  • Butt Naked Free ( 2000)
  • Give in kind (2002)
  • Chocolate to the Bone (2003)
  • Legacy ( 2004)
  • Skunk Mello (2006)
  • Guy Davis On Air - Live in Bremen ( 2007)
  • Sweetheart Like You (2009)
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