BIOGRAPHY:
Stephen Ray Vaughan was born in Oak Cliff, close to Dallas,
October 3, 1954. It starts to play of the guitar, with his elder
brother Jimmie, as of the eight years age. Stevie is involved
day and night and becomes one of best the guitarist of its area,
but other side of the coin, it neglects its studies and is found
excluded from its college in 1972. It decides to join his brother
in Austin to live of its music.
It plays in various
club randomly of the meetings before forming its group in 1976:
"Threat Triple Re-examined". With force in concerts
and small round, the group, which is called now "Double
Disorder", ended up being made beautiful famous and successful
to be made invite to the festival of Montreux (Swiss) in 1982.
It is the catch for Stevie. Noticed by David Bowie, that Ci
requires of him to hold the guitar on its album to come: "Let'
S Dance". In 1983, after two days of recording and hardly
more for the mixing, the first album leaves Stevie, "Texas
Flood" which electrifies its listeners and makes of Stevie
the new hero of the six cords. The concerts multiply and to
hold, Stevie drink and take drugs more than of reason, in 1986,
it breaks down on scene, with the limit of the overdose. It
decides to be caught in hand and enters a center of detoxication.
It will be for him one very difficult period of its life that
it reports partly in its album "In Step" which leaves
in 1989 to mark its return. Return of short duration, alas,
since August 27, 1990, whereas it returns in a concert which
it has just given with Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Jimmie Vaughan
and Robert CRAY, its helicopter is crushed and it dies in the
accident, thus marking the end of a man, but the beginning of
a legend.