Jeff Healey
Jeff Healey was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on March 25th, 1966 and is the Blues Singer. At the age of 41, Jeff Healey biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, and networth are available.
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Norman Jeffrey Healey (March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008) was a Canadian jazz and blues-rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter who rose to international and personal fame in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.
On the United States, he ranked No. 5 on the list. "Angel Eyes" and "How Long Can a Man Be Strong" appear on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and reached the top ten in Canada.
Early life
Healey, a born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was raised in the city's west end. He was adopted as an infant; his adoptive father was a firefighter. Healey's sight was lost as a result of retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer. His eyes had to be surgically removed, and he was given ocular prostheses.
Later work and life
Healey began focusing on jazz after the release of the 2000 album Get Me Some.
He went on to release three CDs of traditional American jazz from the 1920s and 1930s. He had been playing in these kinds of bands around Toronto since the start of his music career. Healey, who is best known as a guitarist, also performed trumpet at live shows. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards was his main jazz band for touring and recording.
Healey was a passionate record collector and amassed a vast number of 78 rpm records. Colin Bray, who began programming very early jazz on CIUT at the University of Toronto in 1990, was able to produce a radio program of very early jazz. He went national on CBC Radio's program entitled My Kind of Jazz, in which he performed recordings from his extensive vintage jazz collection. He changed the program to Jazz FM - CJRT two years later as part of the ongoing celebrations of Healey's 50th birthday in 2016, which will be broadcast on jazz.fm on Wednesdays 9 p.m.
Healey performed with his blues band in North America and Europe for many years, as well as with his jazz band on Saturday nights and also with his jazz band on Saturday afternoons. The club relocated to 56 Blue Jays Way in a new name, "Jeff Healey's Roadhouse," according to a new owner. Jeff Healey did not own or manage the bar, although he lent his name to the club and often played there. (The name derives from Healey's appearance in the 1989 film Road House.) With his other band, the Jeff Healey Blues Band (aka "Healey's House Band), he had been planning to perform a string of shows in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands in April 2008.
Healey performed with many well-known artists, including The Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, BB King, ZZ Top, Eric Clapton, and many others over the years. Healey appeared on Deep Purple's Inn in 2006 and was featured on Inn's Deep Purple album.
Healey discovered and developed the careers of other musicians, including Terra Hazelton, Amanda Marshall, Shannon Curfman, and Philip Sayce.
Healey's album Mess of Blues received the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Blues Album in early 2009.
Healey was inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame in 2009, and was inducted into it.
In June 2011, Woodford Park in Toronto was renamed Jeff Healey Park in his honour.
Healey was inducted into the Walk of Fame in Canada in 2014. Jeff Healey was inducted into the Mississauga Music Walk of Fame in September 2016. Heal My Soul, the posthumous album, was released in March 2016, as well as the companion album Holding On in December of the same year. Both albums were assembled from unreleased recordings by Roger Costa. Heal My Soul was released on a 12 track compilation with six covers and a number of collaborations with Marti Frederiksen, Arnold Lanni, and Stevie Salas. Ten live tracks recorded at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Norway in 1999 were included on the 15 track Holding On album, as well as five studio tracks.
Personal life
Healey married Krista Miller in 1992; the two children were born in 1992 and divorced in 1998. He married Cristie Hall in 2004 and had a son with her.
Early career and success
Healey began playing guitar when he was three years old, and he developed his own style of playing the instrument flat on his lap. In an interview with the TVOntario children's program Cucumber, his musical abilities were showcased at nine years old. Healey formed Blue Direction, a four-piece band that mainly performed bar-band cover songs and featured bassist Jeremy Littler, drummer Graydon Chapman, and schoolmate Rob Quail on second guitar when he was 15. The band appeared in bars in Toronto, including the Colonial Tavern.
On radio station CIUT-FM, Healey began hosting a jazz and blues show, where he was known for playing from his massive archive of vintage 78 rpm gramophone recordings.
He was introduced to bassist Joe Rockman and drummer Tom Stephen, with whom he formed a band called the Jeff Healey Band shortly after. The group made their first public appearance at the Birds Nest, located upstairs at Diner in Chicago, on Queen Street West in Toronto. They were rewarded with a write-up in Toronto's NOW magazine and soon began playing almost every night in local clubs, including Grossman's Tavern and Albert Collins' famed blues club Albert's Hall, where Jeff Healey was discovered by guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins.
The band appeared on the RPM Top 100 chart in 1989 after being signed to Arista Records in 1988. See the Light was the band's debut on the RPM Top 100 chart. It included hits single "Angel Eyes" and the album "Hideaway," which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. As the band was recording See the Light, they were also filming (and recording for) Patrick Swayze's film Road House's soundtrack. Healey appeared in several scenes in the film with Swayze, as his band was the house cover band for the bar featured in the film. The band received the Juno Award for Canadian Entertainer of the Year in 1990. Healey's albums "Hail to Pay and Feel This" featured George Harrison and Jeff Lynne on backing vocals and acoustic guitar.