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BIOGRAPHY
He was born in Santa Barbara, California, United States, and grew up intrigued by a combination of his mother's piano playing, plus the diverse record collection owned by both of his parents. However, it was his grandfather, Alfred "Chico" Alvarez, once of Stan Kenton's band in the 1940s and 1950s, who inspired Greene to pursue a musical career. In his youth, Greene took piano and saxophone lessons, but found that learning to play the guitar allowed him to partly emulate the type of heavy rock music he was listening to at the time, and to play with other like-minded students.
His path towards the blues was assisted by his father's friend, who
loaned Greene a few seminal blues recordings including B.B. King's Live
at the Regal, Buddy Guy's A Man and the Blues, Johnny Winter's Second
Winter, The Allman Brothers Band's At Fillmore East and Stevie Ray
Vaughan's Couldn't Stand the Weather. He formed a band and, a year
later, relocated trying to obtain openings for their hard rock ensemble
in the clubs in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Greene also played in a high school jazz band who undertook
a competition in Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida. He impressed a
college representative sufficiently to obtain a scholarship at the
Berklee College of Music. After a year studying at Santa Barbara City
College, Greene was a pupil for two years at Berklee, although he did
not graduate. Again through his father's connections he managed to join
a blues rock outfit, and then another one, where he took up singing as
well as playing the guitar....
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