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- Guy Davis (born May 12, 1952) is an American blues guitarist, banjo player, and two-time Grammy Award nominee.
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Guy Davis (born May 12, 1952) is an American blues guitarist, banjo player, and two-time Grammy Award nominee. He is the second child and the only son of the actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. [1]
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Guy was honored to contribute to the incidental soundtrack to the Broadway Revival of the play, Purlie Victorious, written by his father, the late Ossie Davis. The show earned 6 Tony nominations, including Best Revival of a Play, and ran from September 2023 to February 2024.
He's a musician, composer, actor, director, and writer. But most importantly, Guy Davis is a bluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.
The headlines call him a renaissance bluesman, and an artist who defies the rural blues myth. Whatever you call him, Guy Davis is 100% pure blues.
Aug 23, 2024 · A Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, award-winning actor and playwright and more, Guy Davis has been thrilling audiences since the ’70s, carrying forward the songster tradition from the early era of the blues.
May 29, 2018 · The son of legendary African-American theatrical figures Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Guy Davis was born in New York City on May 12, 1952. There was blues music in his family background; his grandfather was a railroad worker who played the harmonica, and a great-grandfather was a blues singer.
Jun 13, 2006 · To Guy Davis, the stories behind Southern blues are as important as the familiar music that defines the genre. His new CD, Skunkmello is full of legendary tales, old and new.
