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Landis is a seven-Time Detroit Music Awards "Outstanding Jazz Vocalist" [...]

This accomplished guitarist and bandleader has performed covers and originals on stage for 25 years. He's been on bills with all genres of national acts from David Lee Roth to EnVogue. You may have seen him play recently in clubs and at festivals throughout Metro Detroit, including Arts, Beats & Eats and the recent Winter Blast event in downtown Royal Oak.

Kenny Parker’s blues education began with the Beatles in the early 1960s, but it wasn’t long before he discovered the roots of their music. Parker grew up in Albion, Michigan and began playing in his first band, the Esquires, at 14. He discovered Albert King and B.B. King in high school via the local record store, and he took his inspiration from them. After graduating from Eastern Michigan University in 1976 and took a job in a Cadillac factory while looking around for the right opportunities to play blues at night. He began working with a paragon of the Detroit scene, Mr. Bo (Louis Bo Collins), and later joined the Butler Twins. While Parker toured Europe with the Butler Twins, JSP founder John Stedman heard him and decided to sign him up for his own recording. The Butler Twins accompanied Parker on his debut recording “Raise The Dead,” where he was also backed by harp master Darrell Nulisch, best known for his work with Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets