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Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in crash
On this day in 1990, Texas blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a
helicopter crash on the way to Chicago from a concert in Alpine Valley,
East Troy, Wisconsin. Vaughan was born in the Oak Cliff section of
Dallas on October 3, 1954. His exposure to music began in his childhood,
as he watched his big brother, Jimmie, play guitar. Stevie's fascination
with the blues drove him to teach himself to play the guitar before he
was an adolescent. By the time he was in high school, he was staying up
all night playing guitar in clubs in Deep Ellum, a popular entertainment
district in Dallas. Vaughan moved to Austin in the 1970s, and by the
early 1980s he and his band, Double Trouble, had a solid regional
reputation. His career took off in the 1980s, and his work eventually
garnered four Grammy Awards. Vaughan was killed at the height of his
career. More than 1,500 people, including industry giants such as
Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and Stevie Wonder, attended his memorial
service in Dallas.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- VAUGHAN, STEVIE RAY
- BLUES
- DEEP ELLUM
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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