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Jeff Healey

  • 41 years old
  • Born Mar 25, 1966
  • Died Mar 02, 2008
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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The Canadian Press

March 2, 2008 at 7:23 PM EST

TORONTO — Canadian rock musician Jeff Healey has died, according to his publicist.

His website says the 41-year-old succumbed the cancer that he had fought since birth and that claimed his eyesight at the age of one.

Healey's distinctive guitar playing style and Blues-influenced singing earned him a reputation as a musical prodigy while he was still in his teens.

He shared the stage with such rock luminaries as Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King.

He went on to front the Jeff Healey Band, an award-winning Canadian act that sold over a million albums in the United States.

Healy was 41, and leaves his wife, Cristie, daughter Rachel (13) and son Derek (three), as well as his father and step-mother, Bud and Rose Healey, and sisters Laura and Linda.

Funeral and memorial arrangements are pending.

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Angel Eyes

David Taylor Nov 11, 2009

Little did I know when I sung "Angel Eyes" with my band to my wife 2 years ago at my 40th birthday bash that the world was soon to lose the genius that was Jeff...sorely missed but never forgotten. Miss you man

jeff my man

Fred Ewart Oct 29, 2009

i'm from the land of down under, new zealand, i was a great fan of yours jeff, roadhouse is most probably my best movie to date, you were blind bro, but i think its all in the mind, your mind ruled your fingers when you played, and your fingers ruled that guitar, many great songs were born when you picked up that gat and played it, i loved it, we loved, the whole world couldnt get enough of your wisdom, you died to young, you were taken b4 your time, mayb there was a reason for it, we may neva know, but lord knows where you are now, or would have been if you had lived just afew more years, so with that i bless you the king of guitars, the master of the blind man, the missing blind guitarist who changed our thoughts for the better, miss you heaps Jeff,

from: Fredericko' Ewart, Napier, New Zealand, The South Pacific, The World.
e-mail: frederickharold@live.com if u wanna chat with me,

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Baxter Dooley Oct 23, 2009

Withou a doubt the world lost one of the most important artists of our time..or any time. His unbelievable invention of how to express himself on the guitar is stiil amazing people around the .I miss him so much. Angel Eyes "the name I have called the woman I love since first hearing the tune"shalll forever be permanently on my playlist at every gig from now till I see you again

Baxter

Jeff My Heart still Aches

raye Oct 23, 2009

I will always listen with the same love and respect for your music and chuckle at the few lines that you did have in Roadhouse say hello to Patrick and all the others that you will get to play and sing with ...... Miss you dearly
MOON

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