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Sonny Rhodes (born Clarence Edward Smith, November 3, 1940, Smithville, Texas) is an American blues singer and lap steel guitar player. He has recorded over two hundred songs. "I'm what you call a self-proclaimed Disciple of the Blues!" said Rhodes about his years playing and singing for fans of blues around the world. He has been nominated fifteen times for the Blues Music Awards, and won the Instrumentalist-Other category in 2011. Rhodes was born in Smithville, Texas, he was the sixth and last child of Le Roy and Julia Smith, who were sharecroppers. He received his first guitar at the...

Todd Rhodes (August 31, 1900 – June 4, 1965) was an American pianist and arranger and was an early influence in jazz and later on in R&B. He was born Todd Washington Rhodes, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Rhodes attended both the Springfield School of Music and the Erie Conservatory, studying as pianist and songwriter. In the early 1920s he played with Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller, Rex Stewart, Doc Cheatham, and Don Redman in McKinney's Cotton Pickers, a jazz group. Rhodes lived and played in Detroit in the 1930s. In the late 1940s he started his own group, Todd Rhodes...

Randall William „Randy“ Rhoads (* 6. Dezember 1956 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien; † 19. März 1982 in Leesburg, Florida) war ein US-amerikanischer Rock- bzw. Heavy Metal-Gitarrist und spielte für Quiet Riot und Ozzy Osbourne. Durch Ozzy Osbourne erhielt er internationale Bekanntheit und gilt seither als einer der einflussreichsten Heavy Metal- und Neo-Classical Metal-Gitarristen. Er beeinflusste viele Gitarristen, die heute selbst zu den besten ihres Genres zählen. Dazu gehören unter anderem Alexi Laiho, Buckethead, Dimebag Darrell, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen und Zakk Wylde. 1981 erhielt Randy Rhoads den "Best New Talent"-Award des Guitar Player-Magazins. 2004 wurde er vom Magazin Guitar World...

Kimmie Rhodes (born March 6, 1954) is a singer-songwriter who has written multi-platinum selling songs. Among the artists who have recorded her songs are Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Amy Grant, CeCe Winans, Joe Ely, John Farnham, Waylon Jennings, Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris. She has recorded and released a total of sixteen solo CDs, written and produced three musicals and published a novella/cookbook, served as an associate producer for a documentary, They Called Us Outlaws presented by the Country Music Hall Of Fame and produced radio documentary/music programming for her show Radio Dreams, which focused on...