Jerry Garcia

Guitarist / Rock Musician

Born: 1 August 1942
Died: 9 August 1995(heart failure)
Birthplace: San Francisco, California
Best known as: Leader of The Grateful Dead

Name at birth: Jerome John Garcia

Jerry Garcia was the guitarist and acknowledged leader of the rock band The Grateful Dead, whose legendary live shows carried the hippie movement from the '60s to the '90s, with a few breaks in between for rehabilitative drug treatments. An accomplished musician, Garcia also had a simultaneous solo career, straying from rock to dabble in folk and bluegrass music. He died in a drug treatment center in Marin County, California.

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