Patrick Verbeke


Patrick Verbeke is a French blues guitarist, composer and singer.

Biography

Patrick Verbeke has spent the past thirty-some-odd years helping to popularize the blues in France, through educational presentations at schools, a long and colorful career as a performer and recording artist, and as host of a popular show, Night Blues, dedicated to the blues the French radio network Europe 1. Highlights of his career include tours with French rock/pop idol Johnny Hallyday in 1976–1977; concerts with French blues harmonicist Benoît Blue Boy from 1978 to 1980; five years of performances with the legendary bluesman Luther Allison, from 1992 until the latter's unfortunate demise in 1997; performing with such artists as Sonny Fisher, Gene Summers, Sugar Blue, Freddie King, Memphis Slim, Vince Taylor and Freddie Fingers Lee while they were on tour in France; and doing session work for such artists as David McNeal, Valerie Legrange, William Sheller, Yves Montand, and many others. Verbeke also co-founded Magic Blues, a record label dedicated to French artists playing and singing the blues in French, with Hélios Vidal in the late 1990s.

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