Thursday 8 May 2008

Guitar great Jeff Healey dies, 41

Guitar great Jeff Healey dies, 41



Jeff Healey, the Canadian guitarist wHO sold over a trillion copies of his debut album 'See the Light' and starred opposite Patrick Swayze in 'Road House', has died.
Healey, wHO was 41, had battled cancer passim his life and died on William Ashley Sunday in Toronto.
As an babe Healey doomed his eyesight due to retino blastoma, a rare pattern of cancer.
He began performing the guitar when he was three-years-old and developed a style of playing the guitar across his lap patch seated.
Discovered by the legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Sarah Vaughan in a Toronto bar at 15, Healey put together his first band at 17 and later launch fame with his trio The Jeff Healey Banding.
The trio's debut, 'See the Light', was Grammy-nominated and gave them a US collide with with the track 'Angel Eyes'. 
Healey explored early malarkey on his later albums just had completed exploit on his first rock and blues album in ashcan School geezerhood, 'Mess of Blues'. It was due for release in Europe on 20 March.
He is survived by his wife and two children.