Soul patch
A soul patch is a beard on the lower lip that was popular in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s. It consists of a narrow strip of hair growth just below the lower lip and ends at or above the chin .
The style was popular with African Americans, especially jazz musicians. Jazz trumpeters like Dizzy Gillespie in particular , but also jazz flutists like Chris Hinze , wore such a beard because it supposedly facilitates the approach. The Blues Brothers adapted the beard style and made it part of their style.
Beard fashion, however, is already going back further and is occupied by celebrities in the Middle Ages. So wore William Shakespeare and the ruling in the 15th century Vlad III. Drăculea that beard. The soul patch has been worn by a number of celebrities in the recent past, including actors Bob Denver , Howie Mandel, and Keanu Reeves, and athletes Mike Piazza , Randy Johnson, and Phil Jackson . Above all, a number of musicians made the Soul Patch famous, including Tom Waits , Frank Zappa (in combination with a mustache ), Eddie Vedder , Trent Reznor , Stevie Wonder , Ray Charles , Jack Black , Billy Ray Cyrus , Bruce Springsteen , Stevie Ray Vaughan and Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit . Guitarist Steve Vai uses the term in an offensive and explicit way in the credits of a concert DVD "Live at the Astoria London" in 2003.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Donald L. Maggin: Dizzy. The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie . HarperCollins, New York 2005, ISBN 0-688-17088-9 .
- ↑ Jennifer Fenn: What is a soul patch