Dennis Rea was born on July 7,1957 and is an American guitarist, author, and music event organizer.
14 Facts About Dennis Rea
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Dennis Rea was a member of the electronic music group Earthstar in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Dennis Rea leads the progressive rock quintet Moraine and worked with Jeff Greinke in Land.
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Dennis Rea has performed throughout the US and in China, Russia, Tuva, Germany, the UK, Taiwan, and Mexico.
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Dennis Rea was one of the first Western musicians to record an album for the state-owned China Record Corporation.
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Dennis Rea is a co-organizer of the annual Seaprog festival and several concert series.
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Dennis Rea was motivated to start playing guitar at the age of nine or ten by Mike Nesmith of The Monkees.
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Dennis Rea joined Wuest and other members of Earthstar in Germany in 1979 and 1980 for sessions at Schulze's IC Studio and appeared on both releases.
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Between 1989 and 1996 Dennis Rea spent several years in China and Taiwan, playing over 100 concerts at cultural centers, universities, conservatories, expatriate bars, religious celebrations, on radio, television, and in sports arenas with the Chinese pop star Zhang Xing.
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Dennis Rea has performed with Cui Jian, Wang Yong, Liu Yuan, Liang Heping, Dennis Rea Yong, ADO, and Cobra.
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Dennis Rea has written about Chinese and other Asian music in CHIME, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, and the Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music.
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Between 1998 and 2001 Dennis Rea led the free-jazz quartet Stackpole, which won a Golden Ear award from Earshot Jazz magazine for Best Northwest Outside Jazz Group in 2000.
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Dennis Rea has worked with Ffej and Frank Junk in the trio Tempered Steel, with Hawkwind founder Nik Turner and drummer Jack Gold-Molina in Flame Tree, and in his Tanabata Ensemble.
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Dennis Rea has toured in Russia and Taiwan and has performed in England, Germany, and Mexico.