1. Joe Messina started playing the guitar when he was thirteen, after his father purchased one for him.
11 Facts About Joe Messina
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Joe Messina initially attended Central High School in his hometown, before studying music at Cass Technical High School.
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Joe Messina eventually dropped out to focus on becoming a professional musician.
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Joe Messina first played in jazz clubs in Detroit starting in the late 1940s.
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Also while at ABC, Joe Messina played on The Soupy Sales Show, alongside guests such as Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.
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Joe Messina stopped playing guitar for 30 years after Berry Gordy took his Motown operation to Los Angeles in 1972, explaining how he "just had no interest".
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Joe Messina was the creator of an alternative music technique known as the Interval Study Method, which uses the chromatic and diatonic scales to create music.
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Joe Messina continued to reside in Detroit until his death, where he performed as a jazz musician for a number of years.
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Joe Messina was married to wife Josie who died in 2009.
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Joe Messina died on April 4,2022, at age 93 at his son's home in Northville, Michigan.
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Joe Messina suffered from kidney disease during the last twelve years of his life.