Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs was born in Canton, Ohio, United States on June 8th, 1944 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 79, Boz Scaggs biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
He is best known for his late 1970s albums, as well as the single "Lido Shuffle" and the Grammy Award-winning "Lowdown" from the critically acclaimed album Silk Degrees (1976), which peaked at No. 8. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Scaggs continues to write, record music, and tour.
Personal life
Donna Carmella Storniola, Scaggs' first wife, married him in 1973. They had two sons: Austin, a Rolling Stone music journalist, and Oscar, who died in 1998 of a heroin overdose. In 1980, Scaggs and Carmella were divorced. Scaggs gained joint custody of his sons after 3.5 years. Carmella died in February 2017.
Dominique Gioia married him in 1992. They transplanted Grenache, Mourvedre, Syrah, and Counoisn in 1996. They made their first wine in 2000. Scaggs Vineyard was certified organic in 2006 by the University of Scaggs. Scaggs sold his plot to Newfound Wines in 2016.
Scaggs' home burned in 2017 as a result of the Northern California wildfires. Both he and his wife were on tour, so they were not affected by the fires. However, he sacrificed everything: his vineyard, cars, and sentimental items, including decades worth of legal pads and cocktail napkins with lyrics.
Early life and career
Scaggs was born in Canton, Ohio, and was the eldest child of Royce and Helen Scaggs. His father was a traveling salesman who had served in the Air Force during WWII. Their family then migrated to McAlester, Oklahoma, and then to Plano, Texas (at that time, a farm town), just north of Dallas. At the age of 9, he learned his first instrument, the cello. He was awarded a scholarship to attend a private school in Dallas, Texas, St. Mark's School of Texas.
Steve Miller, who taught him how to play the guitar at age 12, appeared at St. Mark's. Scaggs wanted to be branded "weird" by a classmate. "Bosley" came first, then "Boswell" and "Bosworth" followed. The name was later changed to Boz. He became Miller's band's vocalist in 1959. Following graduation in 1962, the pair met together at University of Wisconsin-Madison, playing in blues bands like the Ardells and the Fabulous Knight Trains.
Scaggs signed up for the army reserves and formed The Wigs, a young boy who left school due to his passion for music in 1963. The band appeared on London's burgeoning R&B scene by 1965. However, success never came and the company disbanded in a few months. Scaggs made their money from busking throughout Europe. He came from Stockholm, Sweden, where he recorded his first solo debut album, Boz, on the Karusel Grammofon AB label, which fell short of commercially. Mac MacLeod and Jack Downing joined him for a short time with the Other Side of the band.
Scaggs, a native of the United States, moved to San Francisco in 1967 after being invited by Steve Miller to join his band on a postcard. Scaggs traveled from India and Nepal to the United States. He appeared on Steve Miller's first two albums, Children of the Future and Sailor in 1968, partnering with Steve Miller. Due to divergent musical tastes and a rift between himself and Miller, he left the band. Scaggs won his second album, Boz Scaggs, starring the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and session guitarist Duane Allman, 1969, he was granted a solo contract with Atlantic Records. Despite good reviews, this issue saw only modest sales. He appeared on Mother Earth's second album Make a Joyful Noise on guitar and backup vocals for a brief period.
Scaggs became the first artist to be signed to Columbia Records in 1971 and 1972. His first two Columbia albums were modest success and he was looking for a new more soulful direction his record company took in former Motown producer Johnny Bristol for 1974's Slow Dancer. Despite the fact that the album only made No. On the US Billboard Album Chart, the number 81 on the list made it to gold status, no doubt giving it a boost from Scaggs' forthcoming album Silk Degrees' enormous success.
Later career
Scaggs took a long break from recording as he realised that making music was a "career" and that music had "left him." In 1983, he tried to make a new album, but "it didn't feel right." He succumbed to feelings of anxiety and found he had to get a record out because there was "something really important" missing in his life in 1985.
Scaggs' new album, Other Roads, didn't appear until 1988 due to Columbia's refusal that the record was not released as "they didn't feel they had a hit single," meaning Scaggs spent more time perfecting the song. Scaggs' last top-40 hit as of 2018 is "Heart of Mine," according to Other Roads' "Heart of Mine." Slim's Nightclub opened in 1988 and remained a member of the club until its closing in 2020.
Scaggs appeared in the New York Rock and Soul Revue from 1989 to 1992.
Scaggs, Donald Fagen, Eddie Van Halen, George Harrison, and Michael McDonald appeared at Toto's tribute concert for Jeff Porcaro in 1992.
Some Change, 1994, was his first solo debut. In 1997, he released Come On Home, an album of rhythm and blues, and My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology, an anthology.
Boz was on tour in 1998 as the opening act for Stevie Nicks.
Dig, his next album after a hiatus from recording, received rave reviews, but the CD was released on a sad date – September 11, 2001. Scaggs launched But Beautiful, a series of jazz standards that debuted at number one on the jazz charts in May 2003. In 2008, he released Speak Low, which he referred to as "a sort of proto-conservative experiment," as "similar to some of Gil Evans' theories." During 2004, he released a DVD and a live 16-track CD Greatest Hits Live, which was broadcast at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.
He undertook a string of shows around the country in 2008 after a break in recording. He performed with Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald in a concert titled The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue two years later. In March 2013, Memphis' next album was released. It was shot in the Royal Studios of Southern America. The collection featured some of his favorite works by other artists on the album. Following the publication of the news, a tour of the United States, Canada, and Japan followed. He introduced live dates to North America and Australia for 2014. He released "Hell to Pay," a collection of mostly covers, as well as "Whispering Pines" with Lucinda Williams, and one original blues piece, "Hell to Pay," performed by Bonnie Raitt in 2015. The album debuted on the Billboard Blues Album chart and at number 54 on the Billboard 200. Out of the Blues was released by the artist in 2018.