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Ray Bonneville (Born: Raymond J. Bonneville; October 11, 1948) is a Canadian traveling blues singer, musician, and songwriter. Born in Canada, and raised in the United States, Bonneville is a blues-influenced, song and groove man who is strongly influenced by New Orleans, Louisiana.〔Retrieved December 20, 2012 ()"About Ray Bonneville"〕 To date, Bonneville has released seven records and, in 2000, won the prestigious Juno Award (Canadian Grammy) for his third album ''Gust of Wind''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://junoawards.ca/awards/artist-summary/?artist_name=ray+bonneville&submit=Search )〕 As a touring musician Bonneville plays more than one hundred and fifty shows a year across the United States, Canada and Europe.〔Retrieved December 20, 2012 ()"Music Ray Bonneville"〕 ==History== Ray Bonneville was born in Hull, Quebec the second-oldest of nine siblings in a family that spoke solely French. When he was twelve his family re-located to Quebec City. Soon after, his father, a mechanical engineer, found work in Boston, Massachusetts, the family relocated to the States and Bonneville was placed into public school without knowing a bit of English.〔 There, Bonneville fell behind in school, but took to music in a big way after a friend showed him how to play guitar. Bonneville always had a contentious relationship with his father and often ran away from home. To keep his son home his father bought him a guitar and let him smoke cigarettes in the house.〔Withers, Jim (June 28, 2012) () "Montreal International Jazz Festival: Ray Bonneville takes his show on the road again" ''The Montreal Gazette''〕 Bonneville's family moved back to Canada when Bonneville was in his late teens and Bonneville, who had been expelled from school, signed up for the United States Marine Corps just in time for the Vietnam War. Returning from the war, Bonneville worked in Boston as a taxicab driver to pay the bills, teaching himself to play harmonica between fares. Getting more involved in the music scene, Bonneville began freelancing with R&B and blues bands in the Boston area.〔 Then, in the 1970s, Bonneville began traveling the country exploring and absorbing musical styles, playing at festivals and small clubs across the United States, and opening for the likes of B.B. King, Muddy Waters, and Dr. John.〔 In the 1970s Bonneville, while in Colorado, learned how to fly a plane and supplemented his income by working as a flight instructor in New Orleans and Boston as well as doing aerial-advertising banner-pulling over Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In 1988 Bonneville returned to Quebec to work as a bush pilot. From May through October he would transport hunters, fishermen, and surveyors into and out of remote areas in a de Havilland Beaver float plane.〔 Bonneville's music was heavily influenced by his time spent in New Orleans during the 1980s, and later. It is often said that the sound of New Orleans is that of rhythm, the rhythms of a brassy jazz band, of the mighty Mississippi River, of the Delta bluesmen, and the rhythm of slowness.〔Gordon, Keith A. Reverend (Retrieved December 20, 2012)() Ray Bonneville – Goin' by Feel (2008)〕 It is this rhythm, this slowness, that captured Bonneville. Bonneville soaked up the prevalent take-your-time attitude that ran through the music being played in New Orleans. ''"There's something about the heat and humidity that makes people slow down,"'' he says. ''"New Orleans is where I learned to take my time, to allow space between the notes so the songs could truly groove."''〔(Referenced 20 December 2012 )〕 It is that groove that is the core of Bonneville's sound. A one-man band, he backs his weathered voice with a highly percussive guitar style, dramatic harmonica lines, and a foot that keeps a steady beat (Bonneville often stomps on a piece of plywood to amplify the beat of his songs).〔Blum, Jim (May 28, 2008) () "Ray Bonneville: True-to-Life Troubadour" ''NPR Music – Favorite Sessions''〕 Bonneville's ''I Am the Big Easy'', the 2009 Folk Alliance International Song of the Year features the heart and resilience of New Orleans, post-Katrina.〔 Musician Brad Hayes is credited, by Bonneville, for much of his early musical development. Hayes and Bonneville had a friendship and musical partnership that lasted for decades, including playing in bands in Colorado for six or seven years, and Hayes performing on Bonneville's CD's. Other musical influences of Bonneville's include Tony Joe White, Mississippi John Hurt and J.J. Cale (to whom he's often compared).〔 "Bonneville writes songs of true-to-life characters who stumble their way through a rough-and-tumble world of violence, hope, and despair" (Jim Blum, NPR).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ray Bonneville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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