- Born
- Birth nameGeorge Guy
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Buddy Guy was born on July 30, 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for In the Electric Mist (2009), Idiocracy (2006) and Nothing to Lose (1997).
- SpousesJennifer(1975 - 2002) (divorced, 2 children)Joan(1959 - ?) (divorced, 6 children)
- Recipient of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipient that year were Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova, and the rock band Led Zeppelin, comprising John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant.
- In 2003 was awarded the US National Medal of Arts.
- Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
- From Pointe Coupee Parish, LA.
- [on persuading President Barack Obama to perform the blues] I'd have a double dose of blues if I had to remember all the names [he has to]. Somebody whispered that if you sing "Sweet Home Chicago" he may come up and sing a verse. I was fit to go on the table if he didn't do it 'cause everybody'd be saying, :Hey man, you done made some kind of remark at the Commander in Chief".
- I listen to people in bars. I imagine some of those people don't know nothing about music, but they're singing to me, because what they said, I've been through.
- [on his first stringed instrument] It wasn't a guitar. In Louisiana you've got mosquitoes that will lift you out of bed and no glass in the windows. My mother saved ten cents and bought a piece of screen and tacked it on. I stripped little pieces of wire, stretched on nails and picked on it.
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