Alexis Korner
UK
Born: 19 April 1928
Died: 01 January 1984
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues-Rock, Electric Texas Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Electric Texas Blues, Rock & Roll/Roots, British Blues, British Invasion, Blues Revival, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Early American Blues
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Without Alexis Korner, there still might have been a British blues scene in the early 1960s, but chances are that it would have been very different from the one that spawned the Rolling Stones, nurtured the early talents of Eric Clapton, and made it possible for figures such as John Mayall to reach an audience. Born of mixed Turkish/Greek/Austrian descent, Alexis Korner spent the first decade of his life in France, Switzerland, and North Africa, and arrived in London in May of 1940, just in time for the German blitz, during which Korner discove...
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