Last Updated: 04 Oct, 2024 | Views: 277
Age: 80
Profession: Singer
Other Profession(s): Guitarist, Song writer
Higher Education: Graduated
Boz Scaggs is an amazing artist and a well known name in the music industry. Scaggs is an amazing American singer with a long career. He is an all round person as he is a singer, guitarist and the songwriter at the same time he was born in Canton, Ohio to his parents Royce and Helen Scaggs. His father was a traveling salesman so later their whole family moved to Oklahoma first then to Texas. First instrument he learned at the beginning of his music journey was cello at the age of 9 and then learned guitar at the age of 12. At a very young age he became a vocalist for a band and never looked back since.
His Career
• In his long career he has been part of many albums and some reaching top heights. The first album he released was in 1965 (a solo album named ‘Boz’).
• In 1976 he reached new heights with his album ‘Silk Degrees’ which was a huge success all over the world. The song ‘Lowdown’ particularly was a blast.
• He never took a large break from his love for music and always kept the fire of his passion alive. In 2013 he gave another hit and successful Album ‘Memphis’.
His Achievements
• His work was nominated multiple times for prestigious Grammy awards in Different categories in 1977, 1981, 1998, 2019.
• He has also won a shared Grammy award in 1977 in Best Rhythm and Blue Song for Lowdown.
Some Better known facts about him
• Boz Scaggs is not a real name. Some funny names were just given to him in his school days to tease him. Boz is just Short form of those. His real name is William Royce Scaggs.
• Scaggs also had a great passion and interest in wine Both in the making process and enjoying it and had owned a few vineyards himself as well.
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