Vernon Reid

Vernon Reid (born August 22, 1958) is an African American guitar player perhaps best known as the founder and primary songwriter of heavy metal group Living Colour.

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Reid was born in London, but grew up in New York City. His earliest recordings are with jazz fusion drummer and composer Ronald Shannon Jackson, with whom Reid collaborated for much of the 1980s, before forming Living Colour.

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Reid has released only two solo albums, but has been active in music, recording or performing with such diverse musicians as Jack Bruce, Bill Frisell, Public Enemy, Rollins Band, Tracy Chapman and DJ Logic. Reid has produced two acclaimed albums for James Blood Ulmer.

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Reid also plays on the D.J. Spooky/Dave Lombardo collaboration, Drums of Death.

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In 1985, Reid co-founded the Black Rock Coalition 1with journalist Greg Tate and producer Konda Mason. Through the BRC, Reid hoped to counter the pigeonholing and marginalization of black musicians.

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August 22: August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining....

1958: 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar....

African American: African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or simply blacks are an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West and Central Africa. Many African Americans have European and/or Native American ancestry as well....

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