Eric Clapton

He has brown eyes and brown hair. He’s short and he has 5 sons.

Eric Clapton is an English guitarist and sing- songwriter. He was born in Ripley, surrey, England on 30 March 1945. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as solo artist, and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” and fourth in Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.

He has a brilliant musical talent, but when he started it was hard. Clapton had difficult to play the chords correctly, but his love for the blues made him continue and improve to be what he’s today.

In the mid-1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds, his first band to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbrakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname “Slowhand”. Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Backer and bassist Jack Bruce.

For most of 1970s Clapton’s output bore the influence of the mellow style of J. J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. Three of his most popular recordings were “Layla” in his solo career, “Crossroads” and “Sunshine of your love” with Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.

His mother’s name is Patricia Molly Clapton and his dad’s name is Edward Walter Fryer. Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar made in Germany, for his thirteenth birthday, but the inexpressive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest. Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently.

After leaving Hollyfield School in Surbition, in 1961, Clapton studied at Kingdom college of Art, but was dismissed at the end of the academic year because his focus remained on music rather than art.

I choose Clapton because I love guitars and he plays very well.

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