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Omar Kent Dykes
American blues guitarist and singer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950) is an American blues guitarist and singer, living in Austin, Texas.
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Born | 1950 (age 73ā74) McComb, Mississippi, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Blues guitarist and singer |
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He began leading bands as an adolescent in McComb, Mississippi.[1]
In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Dykes has also had a successful career as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries.
Among his solo albums are Blues Bag from 1991, and Muddy Springs Road from 1994.[2]
An Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee, he was afflicted in 2017 with a skin illness that wasted away the flesh of his arms, and he lost the ability to perform in public.[1] In 2020 he published a memoir, OMAR DYKES: The Life and Times of a Poor and Almost Famous Bluesman.[3]