Anthony Gomes
Encyclopedia
Anthony Gomes is a Canadian
blues
and blues rock guitarist
and singer. He was born to a Portuguese
father and a French-Canadian mother. After his 1997 debut album
release Blues in Technicolor, he began touring the United States
and Canada and he has since recorded eight more albums.
Gomes resides in Chicago
, Illinois
, United States, playing a fusion of blues with rock
and soul
, and with the Anthony Gomes Band has toured North America
and Europe
.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and blues rock guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
and singer. He was born to a Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
father and a French-Canadian mother. After his 1997 debut album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
release Blues in Technicolor, he began touring the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Canada and he has since recorded eight more albums.
Gomes resides in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, United States, playing a fusion of blues with rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
and soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
, and with the Anthony Gomes Band has toured North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
Discography
- 1998 - Blues in Technicolor (Urban Electric)
- 2000 - Sweet Stringin' Soul (Urban Electric)
- 2002 - Unity (33rd Street Records)
- 2006 - Music Is The Medicine (Adrenaline)
- 2006 - Long Way Home
- 2008 - Anthony Gomes Live
- 2008 - Primary Colors
- 2009 - Rebel Blue
- 2009 - New Soul Cowboys
Awards
- 1998: Buddy Guy's Legends "Best Unsigned Blues Band"
- 2003: BluesWax Artist of the Year