Guy Forsyth

Guy Forsyth (born December 2, 1968) is an American Texas blues and blues rock singer, guitarist, harmonicist and songwriter. He regularly tours both in the United States and Europe, and has opened for Ray Charles, Robert Cray, Dr. John, B.B. King, Jimmie Vaughan, and Lucinda Williams. His most recent release was The Freedom To Fail (2012). Forsyth's repertoire primarily incorporates elements of blues and Americana traditions, with the requisite traces of rock, R&B, folk, jazz and pop. As a songwriter, many of his albums contain his own work and songs he co-composed with other musicians. Forsyth has won several Austin Music Awards, including one for "best male vocalist" in 2005. 2Life and career Forsyth was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. With an airline employee as a father, Forsyth's formative years were interspersed with frequent relocations to New York, Connecticut, and California before settling again in Kansas City. By the age of 16 he began playing the harmonica, in addition to singing, and was influenced by the work to Robert Johnson to later learn to play the guita