![]() ![]() What I have come to find to be the greatest and most effective and successful weapon that we can use, known to man, to combat such adversaries as ignorance, racism, hatred, violence, is also the least expensive weapon, and the one that is the least used by Americans. Discography Īctivism Davis holding up KKK robes at Blues and Rock for Humanity in November 2017 "Davis' piano work impresses with his winning combination of technique and abandon, and his vocals are strong and assured", wrote a reviewer in Living Blues Magazine. ![]() For several years, Davis served as artistic director of the Centrum Acoustic Blues Festival. He was awarded "Best Traditional Blues/R&B Instrumentalist" at the 2009 Washington Area Music Awards. He has played with artists such as Elvis Presley's Jordanaires, The Platters, The Drifters, The Coasters, Bo Diddley, Percy Sledge, and Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave). Davis has also performed with blues icon B. He was a friend of Muddy Waters and played piano in The Legendary Blues Band. ĭavis has frequently played backup for Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. Davis "was mentored by legendary pianists Pinetop Perkins and Johnnie Johnson, who both claimed him as their godson and praised his ability to master a piano style that was popular long before he was born", according to his Kennedy Center profile. In 1980, he earned a bachelor of music degree from Howard University, where he was a member of the Howard University Choir and Jazz Vocal Ensemble. Music career ĭavis absorbed the style of blues musicians from the Mississippi Delta who had migrated north. The irrationality of the incident, in his mind, led to a curiosity about the origins and basis for such racist attitudes, which would later shape much of his future activity. Davis did not understand the incident until he discussed it with his father. In one incident, he was carrying the flag and marching with his troop in a local parade, when he was struck with rocks and bottles thrown from the crowd, prompting the pack leaders to form a protective ring around him. At the age of ten, he returned to the United States and joined an all-white Cub Scout pack in Belmont, Massachusetts. Living in various foreign countries, including African nations, Davis grew accustomed to the casually integrated schools of foreign diplomats, where children of many nations, races, and cultures were schooled together. Early life īorn in Chicago, Illinois, Davis was the son of a Department of State Foreign Service officer and moved around the world with his parents during most of his early childhood. He is the subject of the 2016 documentary Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America. Known for his energetic style of boogie-woogie piano, Davis has played with such musicians as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. His efforts to fight racism, in which, as an African American, he has engaged with members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), have convinced a number of Klansmen to leave and denounce the KKK. Daryl Davis (born March 26, 1958) is an American R&B and blues musician and activist. ![]()
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