Jeff Healey RIP

mike65

Just spotted this

clicky

Guitar wizard Norman Jeff Healey of Toronto died Sunday of cancer. He was 41.

Healey was considered a prodigy and earned numerous Juno and Grammy nominations in the course of his career.

He lost both his eyes to retinoblastoma before he was eight-months-old, but never let that slow him down./

/In 1988, his Grammy-nominated album See the Light included the major hit single, Angel Eyes. In 1990, he earned the Juno for entertainer of the year.

Healey became an internationally-known star who played with musical greats that included B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

The Jeff Healey Band was a sellout act across Canada and sold over a million albums in the U.S. market.

But Healey's passion was not always in rock music and later in his career branched into jazz, especially from the golden years of the genre in the 1920s and '30s. He released several jazz CDs and had a collection of some 25,000 78 rpm jazz records.

Until recently, he had a show on a Toronto jazz station CJRT-FM.

Early last year, Healey underwent surgery to remove cancerous tissue from his legs, and later from both lungs; aggressive radiation treatments and chemotherapy failed to halt the spread of the disease.

Mike.

Grid.

Is this true!!!OMG!!! Seen him play in the Red Box a few years back!!
Will be sadly missed!! Great player!! R.I.P Jeff!

Karl Hungus

Oh suck! That's terrible, RIP.

Mental Mickey

Aaaaaaawwwwwwwwww f*&!in hell. That's terrible news. He was a brilliant musician/songwriter. I only had the privilege of seeing him in concert once. Way back in the late 90s or early 00s in the ******* Theatre.

I'll be getting that new album("Mess Of Blues")when it comes out.

RIP.

peter1892

Sad, sad news. what a fine guitarist he was. RIP.

MoominPapa

That really sad. His rip roaring version of While my guitar gently weeps was the first I heard of him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw

Great player
RIP

Grid.

Was in Toronto in '97 and some of the Irish lads from the backpackers hostel had met him in a jazz club and had a few beers with him, said he was a lovely guy!! I'm sure he's up there jammin with Stevie and Jimi now!!

This was one of the tracks that sparked my interest in Jeff from the early '90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBCJ68mC4c

Pyr0

He's a strong man, didn't let his lack eye sight hold him back from doing what he loved and making something of his life.

RIP

MonkeyTennis

oh man.

Thats really sad news.

NIBBS

the condolences list has stuff from all over the world, went from 36 to 411 pages overnight......
a very sad day indeed, someone who truely appeared to enjoy his craft, wether he was playing blues/rock or jazz, caught him over here a couple of times and two of my favourite gigs ever, he put so much feeling into what he did......RIP Jeff.....

galwayrush

One of the best, what a terrible sad loss.
RIP Jeff.

blastman

Great bluesman, I really loved his first two albums.

RIP