Tommy Emmanuel
Birthday: May 31, 1955 in Australia
Height: 188 cm
Tommy Emmanuel is one of the most talented acoustic guitarists worldwide, his skills to use a guitar as a percussion as well as a stringed instrument makes him unique. He started playing guitar when h ...Show More
[on his performances] Everything is by ear. When I was a teenager learning solos from Merle Haggard Show more
[on his performances] Everything is by ear. When I was a teenager learning solos from Merle Haggard records or trying to figure out Django Reinhardt I realized that I could hum and visualize improvising. It clicked when someone told me to play what I could sing or hum and try to do it spontaneously Hide
[on most of his shows being solo performances] I realized I could probably make that work overseas b Show more
[on most of his shows being solo performances] I realized I could probably make that work overseas because I couldn't afford to fly ten people around. So I've done a lot of that since I first started playing North America in the 1980s. Now I'm looking at playing more in South Africa, East Asia and South America. Hide
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