BUDDY GUY

At age 86, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi
Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a
living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 8 GRAMMY Awards, a
2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received),
the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor,
and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its “100 Greatest
Guitarists of All Time.”