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1960-11-23

Jean-Paul Bourelly is born in Chicago and will bend jazz toward Hendrix

Haitian

Jean-Paul Etienne Bourelly was born in Chicago on 23 November 1960, to parents from Haiti. His grandmother taught him Yoruba music. He sang at the Lyric Opera at ten before taking up the electric guitar, moved to New York in 1979, and worked with Muhal Richard Abrams in the 1980s. His music crosses jazz fusion and rock.

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