1. William Royce "Boz" Scaggs was born on June 8,1944 and is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
31 Facts About Boz Scaggs
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Boz Scaggs was a bandmate of Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Band from 1967 to 1968.
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Boz Scaggs produced two more platinum-certified albums in Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, the latter of which produced the top-40 singles "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo".
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Boz Scaggs opened the nightclub Slim's, a popular music venue in San Francisco.
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Boz Scaggs has continued to record and tour throughout the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, with his most recent album being 2018's Out of the Blues.
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Boz Scaggs was born in Canton, Ohio, the eldest child to Royce and Helen Boz Scaggs.
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Boz Scaggs's father was a traveling salesman who had flown in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
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Boz Scaggs learned his first instrument, the cello, at age 9.
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Boz Scaggs received a scholarship to attend a private school in Dallas, St Mark's School of Texas.
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Boz Scaggs left school in 1963 to pursue a career in music.
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Boz Scaggs signed up for the Army Reserve and formed a new band, the Wigs with John "Toad" Andrews and Bob Arthur.
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Boz Scaggs arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, where he recorded his first solo debut album, Boz, in 1965 with the Karusell Grammofon AB label, which failed commercially.
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Boz Scaggs had a brief stint with the band the Other Side with Mac MacLeod and Jack Downing.
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Boz Scaggs appeared on the Steve Miller Band's first two albums, Children of the Future and Sailor in 1968.
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Boz Scaggs left the band due to different music tastes and tension between himself and Miller at the time.
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Boz Scaggs briefly hooked up with San Francisco Bay Area band Mother Earth in a supporting role on their second album Make a Joyful Noise on guitar and backup vocals.
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Boz Scaggs signed with Columbia Records releasing the albums Moments in 1971 and My Time in 1972.
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Boz Scaggs was performing at Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center during the infamous July 13th New York City blackout in 1977.
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Boz Scaggs was around 15 minutes into the concert when the power went out.
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Boz Scaggs told the audience to save their ticket stubs as he would do a repeat concert on the Friday night, a few days after.
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Boz Scaggs performed with Fleetwood Mac for a few concerts between 1976 and 1977.
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For Down Two Then Left, Boz Scaggs continued working with Toto and additionally Ray Parker Jr, who later created the Ghostbusters theme song in 1984.
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Boz Scaggs took a long break from recording as he felt making music had become a "career" and that music had "left him".
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Boz Scaggs did attempt to make a new album in 1983, but "it didn't feel right".
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In 1992, Boz Scaggs performed at Toto's tribute concert for Jeff Porcaro, along with Don Henley, Donald Fagen, Eddie Van Halen, George Harrison, and Michael McDonald.
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Boz Scaggs issued Come On Home, an album of rhythm and blues, and My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology, an anthology, in 1997.
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In May 2003, Boz Scaggs released But Beautiful, a collection of jazz standards that debuted at number one on the jazz chart.
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Boz Scaggs married his first wife, Donna Carmella Storniola, in 1973.
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In 2000 they made their first wine, and in 2006 Boz Scaggs Vineyard was certified organic.
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Boz Scaggs lost everything: the vineyard, cars, and sentimental objects such as decades worth of legal pads and cocktail napkins with lyrics on them.
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In 2019, Boz Scaggs was awarded the Texas Medal of Arts.