David Gerald is an American blues rock musician.
David Gerald | |
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| Born | 1968 Detroit, Michigan |
| Occupation | Blues rock musician |
Born in 1968,[1] David Gerald is a native of Detroit, Michigan, where his parents moved from their home in Mississippi[2] during the mid-1950s.[3] He began playing the guitar at the age of fifteen, first learning Rock music before taking on the Blues,[4] on repaired guitars he received from a neighbor.[5]
While mainly a guitarist, Gerald also plays the drums, bass, and keyboards.[6] He travels and tours as the front man of his eponymous David Gerald Band.[7] He released his first album Hell and Back in 2009,[8][9] which reached the number one position on the Roots Music Report's Blues Chart, staying in the top twenty for several weeks.[4] He also reached the #1 on the ReverbNation Michigan blues charts,[10] and the album received national radio play.[11] The album contains ten tracks, including five originals and five live covers.[1]
In April 2018,[12] he then released his second album, N2U.[13] Gerald performs guitar, bass and drums on all the studio recordings, the album also featured Ronald Thieleman on bass and Geoff Kinde on drums[14] on the live cover recordings of "Hug You Squeeze You" and "Willie the Wimp".[15][16]