10 January 2021
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Internationally renowned Canadian keyboard player, Michael Fonfara has died in a Toronto hospital on January 8, 2021, due to complications from his two-year battle with cancer. He was 74.
Born in Stevensville, ON, Canada in 1946, the former Lou Reed keyboardist/bandleader appeared on nine of Reed s albums between 1974 and 2005, including his highest charting US album (#10) Sally Can t Dance on RCA, as well as Rock and Roll Heart, Street Hassle, The Bells (which Fonfara executive produced) and Growing Up In Public that was co-written and co-produced by Fonfara for Clive Davis Arista Records in 1980.
A supremely talented musician, Fonfara loved many different styles of music, performing on British-American Rock band Foreigner s iconic album 4, produced by Mutt Lange, including their Top 5 Billboard Hot 100 hit Urgent . He also recorded with The Everly Brothers, Rough Trade, Rhinoceros, Electric Flag and was a current and 30-year plus member of Canadia
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Blues star James Harman is battling stage 4 cancer of the esophagus and begins chemo treatment over the coming week.
Leslie James Harman began piano lessons at age four, and also sang in his local church choir. Harmonicas owned by his father were stored in the piano bench, and Harman tried playing them after his piano lessons ended. In time, he became capable in several other musical instruments, including guitar, electric organ, and drums.
Harman performed as a blues harmonica player and singer in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere before moving to southern California in the 1970s. Here, his Icehouse Blues Band played alongside Big Joe Turner, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, B. B. King, T-Bone Walker, Lowell Fulsom, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Johnny Guitar Watson, and Albert Collins.
Carlos Guitarlos
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Throughout the 90 s and into the new millennium, Carlos Guitarlos could be found playing guitar for pocket change on the streets of San Francisco?s Mission District. Oftentimes, Carlos slept on those same cold streets whe.
more »re he eventually became a street-corner legend (The SF Bay Guardian name him the city?s Best Street Musician in 1994). For the one-time musical leader of legendary Los Angeles roots-rockers Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs inspiration for the 1984 Van Halen song Top Jimmy it had been a long, slow downward spiral of divorce, diabetes, and drugs. In the wake of his hard-knock life, Carlos found himself in a San Francisco hospital, fighting for his life with congestive heart failure. That experience, combined with the alcohol-related death of his friend and former band-mate, Top Jimmy, proved to be the catalyst of hi
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