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Corinne Bailey Rae is a British singer. She was born in 1979. Raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, she was bought a guitar by a friend at the church she attended who also encouraged her to write songs. In 2001 her debut album entered the charts at the number one position.
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Jimi Hendrix (real name John Allen Hendrix, later changed to James Marshall Hendrix) was an American musician, famed for his electric guitar playing. He was born in 1942 at Seattle, Washington and died in 1970 of a barbiturate overdose.
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Joan Baez is an American professional folksinger. She was Born in 1941 at Staten Island. She studied at Boston University, but left to sing in Boston coffee houses. Her clear soprano voice and simple, effective guitar accompaniments created a distinctive style that became increasingly popular after her Newport Folk Festival appearance in 1959 and her recording debut in 1960. Baez worked for civil rights, in the antiwar movement, and for human rights in south-east Asia, both through her singing and by founding Humanitas, an international human rights organization, and the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence.
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John Denver (real name Henry John Deutschendorf Jr) was an American folk singer, actor and environmentalist. He was born in 1943 at Roswell, New Mexico and died in 1997 in a plane crash. As a child he was bought an acoustic guitar by his grandfather, and after learning to play it appeared at Leadbetter's night club in West Los Angeles before getting a break replacing the departing Chad Mitchell in the Chad Mitchell Trio, staying with the group until going solo in 1969. From 1969 until 1975 he was a major-selling artist in the country and pop charts. In 1970 he started acting, appearing in an episode of the television drama 'McCloud' before starring in the 1977 film 'Oh God' after which he devoted more attention to politics, specialising in environmental issues.
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John McGeoch is guitar player with the rock group Public Image Ltd.
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Sir Michael Philip Jagger (popularly known as Mick Jagger) is an English musician. He was born in 1943 at Dartford, Kent. During the early 1960's he and his long-time friend Keith Richards formed the pop group the 'Rolling Stones' with Mick Jagger on lead vocals and Keith Richards on guitar together with Bill Wyman on bass guitar, Charlie Watts on drums and Brian Jones on guitar. He was knighted in 2002 for his services to the British music industry.
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Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright and arms dealer. He was born in 1732 at Paris and died in 1799. Best remembered for his plays 'The Barber of Seville' and 'The Marriage of Figaro'. He was the son of a watchmaker named Caron, whose trade he practised for a time. He early gave striking proofs of his mechanical and also of his musical talents; he attained proficiency as a player on the guitar and harp, and was appointed harp-master to the daughters of Louis XV. By a rich marriage (after which he added ' de Beaumarchais' to his name) he laid the foundation of the immense wealth which he afterwards accumulated by his speculations, and which was also increased by a second marriage.
He is less well known for supplying arms and lending funds to the American colonists in support of their revolution against the British government during the American War of Independence - though following independence the American government never repaid the monies they owed to Pierre de Beaumarchais. During the French Revolution, he again sold arms to the French aristocracy, was discovered and ironically fled to Holland and England.
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Johnny Guitar is a Western starring Sterling Hayden and Joan Crawford in a story about a saloon owner employing a mysterious man. Johnny Guitar was directed by Nicholas Ray in 1954.
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A balalaika is a triangular, two-, three- or four-stringed Russian musical instrument resembling a guitar in appearance.
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The banjo is a stringed musical instrument. It is an American development of African origins related to the Kora etc., but with a guitar type neck. Found with 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 or more strings, popular types are the 5 string, Tenor (4 string), Plectrum (long neck 4 string), Banjolele (Ukulele Banjo), Banjolin (Mandolin Banjo).
The banjo evolved among the negro slaves of North America and was originally a six-stringed instrument with a body like a tambourine and a neck like a guitar. The banjo is played by stopping the strings with the fingers of the left hand and twitching or striking them with the fingers of the right. The upper or octave string, however, is never stopped.
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