Guitar legend Les Paul has died

Guitar legend Les Paul has died, yeah.. Guitar legend Les Paul has died of complications from pneumonia, his family announced. He was 94. He died on Thursday at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, with his family at his side. Sex is considered the "father of the electric guitar" for inventing the solid body instrument. In the first jazz-pop musician Paul innovative way influenced by guitarists like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. At the age of 93, they continue to play weekly at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York. Paul has built his own solid body guitar with a gain in 1941 because he wanted to hear the audience the best. I tried to overcome previous problems with electric guitars, instruments that are hollow, and suffers from the distortion of information. Increasing Paul solid body guitar in the next 10 years until in 1952, Gibson Guitar Corp. introduced the Les Paul model. Paul also developed techniques, such as several tracking and echo delay, and created an early model synthesizer.

"He became an idol and an icon to people in the world of rock, as well as people in jazz and popular music" Terry Stewart, chairman of Cleveland-based Rock n 'Roll Hall of Fame in honor of Paul in the past year. Paul was an innovator throughout his life in music. Born June 9, 1915 in Waukesha, Wis .., I started playing harmonica at age eight. As a teenager, began to implement a semi-professional guitarist and music in the country and left school to join the group.
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