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Artist Biography For Vernon Reid

Vernon Reid Born August 22 1958 Is A Guitar Player Perhaps Best Known As The Founder And Primary Songwriter Of Hard Rock Group Living Colour. He Was Named #66 On Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time. Reid Is Probably Best Known For Leading Living Colour. He Founded Living Colour In New York City Circa 1985 And Piloted The Band Through A Successful Career. Among The Highlights A Double Platinum-Selling Debut Album Vivid Released In 1988 Its Gold-Certified Successor Time's Up Released 1990 Two Consecutive Grammy Awards In The Category Of Best Hard Rock Performance Opening For The Rolling Stones' 1989 "Steel Wheels" Tour And Appearing On The First Lollapalooza Tour In The Summer Of 1991. Living Colour Released "Collide0scope" In October Of 2003 On Sanctuary Records. In Addition To His Work With Living Colour Reid Has Been Engaged In A Number Of Other Projects. He Released "Mistaken Identity" His First Solo Album In 1996 And Has Collaborated With The Choreographers Bill T. Jones On "Still/Here" And Donald Byrd On "Jazztrain". He Performed "Party 'Til The End Of Time" At The Brooklyn Academy Of Music BAM With The Roots An End Of The Millennium Tribute Featuring The Music Of Prince's Album "1999". He Also Composed And Performed "Bring Your Beats" A Children's Program For BAM. Reid Has Also Produced Records By Resort A Mexican Hard Rock Group And Two Grammy Nominated Albums "Papa" By The Great African Singer Salif Keita And "Memphis Blood The Sun Studio Sessions" By James "Blood" Ulmer. SOLO DISCOGRAPHY Smash & Scatteration With Bill Frisell 1984 GTR OBLQ With Elliott Sharp And David Torn 1998 Mistaken Identity 1996 This Little Room 2000 Unreleased
Front End Lifter - Yohimbe Brothers 2002 Known Unknown 2004 The Tao Of Yo - Yohimbe Brothers 2004 Other True Self 2006 SOURCE Wikipedia

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