Victor Brox

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Victor Brox (2012)

Victor Brox (born May 8, 1940 in Droylsden ) is a British multi-instrumentalist and singer of blues rock .

Live and act

Brox grew up in a musical family in the Manchester area and played the compositions of Jelly Roll Morton in a band as a teenager . He attended concerts by Big Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee / Sonny Terry . After studying philosophy, he decided to become a musician. He first experimented with the free jazz of Ornette Coleman and influenced the later singer Nico sustainable. In the mid-1960s, he and his wife Annette founded their first blues band, The Blues Train , in which musicians like John Mayall played. There were also recordings with Alexis Korner .

Since 1967 he was lead singer of the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation , where he also played the organ, other keyboards and cornet . In 1970 he sang as high priest Caiaphas in the original recording of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar . In the early 1970s he performed with Graham Bond and with Screaming Lord Sutch .

In 1974 he and his wife Annette released the album Rollin 'Back! in front. In his group Music Force he performed with Vanessa and Colin Redgrave and Tom Kempinski , and then played with Road to Workers Power .

He has also performed with Little Walter , Muddy Waters , Jimi Hendrix , Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillan , Memphis Slim , Country Joe McDonald , Peter Bardens and Keith Moon . On the album The Sun, Moon & Herbs by Dr. John can also be heard with Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger .

His daughter Kyla Brox is also a blues musician.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "You could hear the acid coming out of the organ": Manchester's Victor Brox on the 60s, blues and Hendrix . Year of birth 1941 and different place of birth on MusicBrainz
  2. ↑ Axel von Cossart Kult um Nico: (Model, Aktrice, Chanteuse) BookRix 2015
personal data
SURNAME Brox, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British multi-instrumentalist and blues rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Droylsden