Henry Gray

USA

Born: 19 January 1925

Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Blues

Styles: Piano Blues, Acoustic Blues, Jump Blues/Piano Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Louisiana Blues, Swamp Blues

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Louisiana-based pianist and singer Henry Gray has a career in American roots music that goes back more than 60 years. Gray was born January 19, 1925, in Kenner, LA, now a suburb of New Orleans. He grew up in Alsen, LA, a few miles north of Baton Rouge. Henry began playing piano as an eight-year-old, and he learned from the radio, recordings, and Mrs. White, an elderly woman in his neighborhood. As a youngster, he began playing piano and organ in the local church, and his family eventually got a piano for the house. While blues playing was not a...

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