Lonnie Johnson
Credited as L. Johnson · Born Alonzo Johnson
Pioneering blues and jazz singer, guitarist, banjoist, violinist and pianist. Known for being the first to record in a single-note soloing guitar style with string bending and vibrato.
Born February 08, 1899 in New Orleans, LA, died June 16, 1970 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
His musical influence includes Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, T-Bone Walker, Django Reinhardt and many, many more.
He started playing in cafes in New Orleans and in 1917 he traveled in Europe, playing in revues and briefly with Will Marion Cook's Southern Syncopated Orchestra. When he returned home to New Orleans in 1918 he discovered that his entire family had been killed by the Spanish flu epidemic except for one brother.