Jorma Kaukonen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane.
16 Facts About Jorma Kaukonen
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Jorma Kaukonen was born in Washington, DC to Beatrice Love and Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Sr.
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Jorma Kaukonen had Finnish paternal grandparents and Russian Jewish ancestry on his mother's side.
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Jorma Kaukonen is the older brother of Peter Kaukonen, who is a musician.
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Jorma Kaukonen departed Washington for studies at Antioch College, where friend Ian Buchanan taught him fingerstyle guitar playing.
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In 1962, Jorma Kaukonen moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and enrolled at the University of Santa Clara.
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Jorma Kaukonen played as a solo act in coffee houses and accompanied Janis Joplin on acoustic guitar on the 1964 recording known as "The Typewriter Tapes" because of the obtrusive sound of Kaukonen's first wife, Margareta, typing in the background.
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Casady left to form the new wave band SVT, while Jorma Kaukonen played as a solo act at venues that had been booked for Hot Tuna's cancelled 1978 tour.
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Jorma Kaukonen began his solo career several years prior to the breakup, when he recorded the 1974 album Quah.
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Jorma Kaukonen recorded the album Barbeque King which was released in 1980.
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Jorma Kaukonen continued playing as a solo artist throughout the 1980s at such venues as The Chestnut Cabaret in Philadelphia, The Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey, and in Port Chester, New York.
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In 1985, Jorma Kaukonen performed with the band There Goes the Neighborhood with Jaco Pastorius, Doug McClean, Whitie Melvin, Ben Prevo, and Rashied Ali.
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Jorma Kaukonen is currently under contract as a solo artist to Red House Records and still records and tours with Jack Casady and other friends such as Barry Mitterhoff as Hot Tuna.
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Jorma Kaukonen married his first wife, Lena "Margareta" in January 1964.
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Jorma Kaukonen met his second wife, Vanessa, in Key West, Florida, on July 3,1988.
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Jorma Kaukonen has a son, Zachary was born on September 6,1997 and whose mother was Stephanie Kearse, and an adopted daughter, Izze.