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Born in Teramo, Italy, 1980, Luca Giordano started to play his guitar when he was 20 years old, improving year by year his style with a deep passion for the Blues. In L'Aquila he has the first experience on stage with the "Jumpin' Eye Blues Quintet", playing in the most important blues clubs and festivals, and performing like opening act for Lurrie Bell, Big Jack Johnson, Nathaniel Peterson and many others. They received awards as "Best Blues Band ADSU" on 2003 and "Best performance" at the "Tornimparte Rock and Blues Fest 2004". In few years, Luca started to play with many famous italian musicians, like Vince Vallicelli (2003 Italian Swing Award Winner), Pippo Guarnera, Joe Galullo, Nick Becattini and others. On the summer 2005 he decides to move to Chicago for a Blues Summit, studying in a seminar with his idol, and blues icon, Mr. Chris Cain. In this period, livin' in Chicago, he plays in the most important Windy City blues clubs like Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's Lounge, House of Blues, Andy's Jazz Club, Kingston Mines. On 2006 Luca starts many collaborations with international musicians like the great singer Sharon Lewis,old school guitar player James Wheeler, Charlie Love and others, and he had the pleasure to play on the Chicago Blues Fest 2006 with the legendary Muddy Waters Band, with Willy "big eyes" Smith on drums, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones on bass, Bobby Dixon (Willie Dixon's son) on Piano and Terry Harmonica Bee, for three consecutive days on the Mississippi Juke Joint Stage. He also had many italian tours with special guests, playing with his band and famous musicians: Shirley King, BB King's daughter, then with Nellie "The Tiger" Travis, 2006 Chicago Blues Diva and nomination for "Best Album" at the Chicago Music Awards, with his teacher and idol Mr. Chris Cain, and with the great Sax Gordon Beadle, recording a new live Cd "Live at Naima". At the moment Luca is always travelling between Abruzzo and Chicago, playing with different musicians from Italy and from the States. On stage with: Big Jack Johnson, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell, Bob Stroger, Bonnie Lee, Carlos Johnson, Les Getrex, Linsey Alexander, Peaches Staten, Matthew Skoller, Junior Watson, James Thompson, Nick Becattini, Enrico Crivellaro and more.
Favorite Blues Artists and Bands
Chris Cain, Lurrie Bell, Carlos Johnson, Hubert Sumlin, Lightnin Hopkins and many many more ...
Hey Luca,
We definitely gotta get you on Blindman's Blues Forum! I help promote the website. It's worth looking up. Just GOOGLE it. Over 500,000 posts! Please stop by, Luca.