Muddy waters biography video on george michael

Ms Audel reads Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters by Michael Mahin, illustrated by Evan Turk.

Muddy Waters was a twentieth century African American blues musician. He was raised by his grandmother, Della Grant, after the demise of his mother closely following his birth. Grant used to call him by his nickname, Muddy, which was given to him based on his habit of playing in the muddy water. In his later life he actually took up the name Muddy Waters permanently.

He began to play harmonica in his teenage years and soon after he was playing guitar at parties. In , he got married to Mabel Berry but three years later his wife left him when she discovered about his infidelity and an illegitimate child with a young girl. Over the years he married once gain but left her as he moved to Chicago in In , Alan Lomax, one of the great folklorist, ethnomusicologist of American history approached Waters and recorded his music.

Waters felt encouraged when he listened himself on the record and realized he could make it as a musician one day. Two years later, he flew to Chicago in hopes of becoming a full-time professional musician. During his early years in Chicago, in order to to make a living he used to drive truck and worked in a factory by day and played music at night.

Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters by Michael Mahin and Evan Turk Born into an area rife with poverty and racism in the Mississippi Delta, Muddy Waters.

He was eventually given a break by a leading blues musician in Chicago, Big Bill Broonzy to perform at night clubs. By , he gained enough influence to have his music recorded at Columbia but it was not released immediately. He was approached by a newly founded record label Aristocrat Records to record his work. By he was still struggling as a music artist.