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  • 1997 deaths
  • Grammy Award winners
  • 1953 births
  • 20th-century American musicians
  • American acoustic guitarists
  • Fingerstyle guitarists
  • Musicians from Baltimore, Maryland
  • Musicians from Oklahoma
  • Peabody Institute alumni
  • Windham Hill Records artists
  • People from Enid, Oklahoma
  • Road accident deaths in California
  • Phillips University alumni
abstract
  • Michael Hedges (December 31, 1953 - December 2, 1997) was a Grammy Award winning acoustic guitar player and singer-songwriter. During his lifetime he referred to his music with a variety of unlikely terms, including “violent acoustic”, “heavy mental”, “acoustic thrash”, “new edge” and “edgy pastoral”. He was often classified as a new age artist because of his long association with Windham Hill Records but his recordings reflected a mix of folk-rock, folk and new acoustic music and often included vocals, sometimes on a majority of the tracks.Hedges died in a auto accident at the age of 43. He received a posthumous Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for his 1998 release %22Oracle%22.
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  • Michael Alden Hedges (December 31, 1953 – December 2, 1997) was an American composer, acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is known for having pioneered percussive fingerstyle guitar, the influence of which can now be heard in the compositions and playing of many guitarists.
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  • 1953-12-31
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  • 1997-12-02
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  • Acoustic
  • Rock
  • New Age
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