Musician Jeff Healey dies of cancer
Guitar wizard Norman Jeff Healey of Toronto died Sunday of cancer. He was 41.
Healey was considered a prodigy and earned numerous Juno and Grammy nominations in the course of his career.
He lost both his eyes to retinoblastoma before he was eight-months-old, but never let that slow him down.
“What we’ve lost is a virtuoso musician,” said Richard Flohil, Healey’s publicist. “He followed his own passion, But Healey’s passion was not always in rock music and later in his career branched into jazz, especially from the golden years of the genre in the 1920s and ’30s. He released several jazz CDs and had a collection of some 25,000 78 rpm jazz records.
Until recently, he had a show on a Toronto jazz station CJRT-FM.
“He was just an awesome guitar player\"
anybody see \"roadhouse\"?
\"Angel eyes\" is just a sweeet blues tune too.
RIP Jeff.
Healey was considered a prodigy and earned numerous Juno and Grammy nominations in the course of his career.
He lost both his eyes to retinoblastoma before he was eight-months-old, but never let that slow him down.
“What we’ve lost is a virtuoso musician,” said Richard Flohil, Healey’s publicist. “He followed his own passion, But Healey’s passion was not always in rock music and later in his career branched into jazz, especially from the golden years of the genre in the 1920s and ’30s. He released several jazz CDs and had a collection of some 25,000 78 rpm jazz records.
Until recently, he had a show on a Toronto jazz station CJRT-FM.
“He was just an awesome guitar player\"
anybody see \"roadhouse\"?
\"Angel eyes\" is just a sweeet blues tune too.
RIP Jeff.
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Also lost a classic from the dave clark 5 this week. One of My first rock n roll concerts . Youve come a long way baby!
The real Mike B
I hope your my evil twin because if not....... am I?.....
another day in Bizzaro world
This guy just freekin rocked check out this video. The band is so tight and Jeff just lets it fly! rcognise the keyboard player.
RIP
Here w e come again!