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Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter was born just like his younger brother Edgar Winter as an albino. His white hair also became his trademark. At the age of 15 he recorded together with his brother and their band “Johnny and the Jammers” their first single, titled “School Day Blues”. Only in 1968 when Johnny played with bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Uncle John Turner as a Trio, the music magazine “Rol- ling Stone” paid attention to him. He signed a contract with the record-label “Liberty” due to an article in this magazine. But only at the beginning of 1968 with his appearance at “Fil- more East” in New York City, the stone began to roll. This gig made him so popular that two big labels “RCA” and “Columbia” were figh- ting to make him sign a contract. Against a down-payment of not less than 600,000 $, he decided to sign for “Columbia”. His European breakthrough was 8 years after “Woodstock Festival”, on April 22nd 1979, with his appea- rance as “Top-Act” at the “Rockpalast Nacht” in the “Grugahalle” in Essen. In 1988 John- ny Winter was elected to the “Blues Hall of Fame”. He died aged 70 in an hotel in Bülach in the canton Zürich, on July 16, 2014.