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Deborah Coleman (born October 3, 1956, Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer. Coleman won the Orville Gibson Award for "Best Blues Guitarist, Female" in 2001, and was nominated for a W.C. Handy Blues Music Award nine times.
Coleman was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in a music-loving military family that lived in San Diego, San Francisco, Bremerton, Washington, and the Chicago area. With her father playing piano, two brothers on guitar, and a sister who plays guitar and keyboards, Deborah felt natural with an instrument in her hands, picking up guitar at age 8. She has played at the top music venues such as North Atlantic Blues Festival (2007), Waterfront Blues Festival (2002), the Monterey Jazz Festival (2001), Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival (2000), Sarasota Blues Festival (1999), the San Francisco Blues Festival (1999) and the Fountain Blues Festival (1998).
Coleman's Blind Pig debut, I Can't Lose (1997), was an album of ballads and blues stories, and guitar playing and singing. Her version of Billie Holiday's "Fine and Mellow" got a lot of airplay on college and public radio stations around the U.S. Soul Be It (2002) included the opener "Brick", "My Heart Bleeds Blue", "Don't Lie to Me," and a jump blues track, "I Believe". These were followed by What About Love? (2004) and Stop the Game (2007)
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1962 born in Chiba, Japan.
1981 started the career as a professional musician in Tokyo Japan.
1992 moved to the U.S.. played with NYC bands such as
Moose and The Bulletproof Blues Band,
Jerry Dugger and Black Pearl,
Christine Santelli Band, Oxford Blues, Roxy Perry,
Last Tribe, Lil' Mama,
Frank Bay, Ed Dicapua & Big City, etc….
1997 played with Sam Taylor Blues Band, Jimmy Vivino,
Leslie West, Nick Gravenites, Bill Sims,
Little Milton, Tod Wolfe, Shemekia Copeland, Son Seals,
Elvin Bishop, Johnnie Johnson, Richie Cannata,
Little Sammy Davis, etc….
2003 started the Original project “Grumpy Juke”.
Joined Deborah Coleman’s back up band as the rhythm guitarist.
toured more than 15 countries in
North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Played with Magic Slim, Kenny Neal, Arthur Williams, etc...
2004 joined Deborah Coleman’s recording session
for the album “What about love”,
worked as the recording conductor,
and played all of slide guitar parts and rhythm guitar parts.
2006 toured in Japan for 3 weeks with Grumpy Juke.
Played with one of the most innovative Japanese guitar player
Shinji Shiotsugu.
Started working with “The GasHouse Gorillas”.
Toured with Joe Louis Walker's band.
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