William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is a famous American rock musician, guitarist, composer, songwriter and songwriter. Founder and permanent leader of the cult rock band ZZ Top.
The biography of the musician
The legendary rocker was born in December 1949 in the small American town of Tanglewood. The boy's father, Frederick Royal, was a famous conductor and wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. Little Billy himself sought to master musical literacy, and from an early age performed in the orchestra as a percussionist (percussion musician). The blues and rock and roll popular for those years for the boy were shown by his nanny with his daughter Stella Matthews. Stella drove little William to clubs where they listened to popular music albums in the blues or rock genre.
One of the key moments in Gibbons' life was the 1963 Christmas. Then he received his first electric guitar as a gift. It was a "primitive" 1962 Gibson. Just an hour later, relatives and friends listened to one of Ray Charles’s hits, What I'd Say, performed by Billy. Having quickly mastered the new instrument, the future star of the heavy scene played the guitar all day long.
Career
Billy Gibbons gathered his first team at the age of 14, the group was called Saints. Then he studied at the Hollywood School of Art, and his fellow students D. Crosswell and F. Taft became the group mates. Before the creation of the legendary ZZ Top, there was another little-known team founded by Gibbons. The team was called The Moving Sidewalks, they performed psychedelic music and acted as the opening act for the then-famous rock bands.
In 1969, The Moving Sidewalks broke up and in the summer of that year a new project of the restless musician appeared - ZZ Top. Over the first few years, the composition has changed several times, and from the beginning of the 70s to this day the group has remained unchanged. Only in 2006, director Bill Hem left the group. Rock musician songs are featured in many Hollywood films.
The first record ZZ Top was recorded in 1971, and today in the discography of the group there are fifteen studio albums. The last work of the group was released in 2012. After the release of La Futura, Billy Gibbons switched to solo work and in recent years has been recording independent work: in 2015 the album Perfectamundo was released, and the very fresh The Big Bad Blues appeared in 2018.
