Edward Lodewijk Van Halen - A Great Musician posted by pratanu banerjee |
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Edward Lodewijk Van Halen was born on January 26, 1955 and he died on October 6, 2020. He has been an awesome American musician. He had worked as songwriter, producer, and inventor. He has been the primary songwriter along with lead guitarist of rock in America. He worked in band Van Halen has been co-founded in the year 1972 along with the brother named drummer whose name was Alex Van Halen. He has been the bassist named Mark Stone along with singer named David Lee Roth. He had gained popularity for tapping guitar solo technique. He permitted quick arpeggios played with his two hands over the fretboard. In 2012, he has been voted
as number one in the magazine named Guitar World in their poll of reader for "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of
All Time". His birthplace was Amsterdam, Netherlands. Jan van Halen and Eugenia van Halen were the father and mother of Edward Lodewijk van Halen. Jan has been the clarinetist of Dutch origin. He has worked as saxophonist, along with pianist. Eugenia had Indo Eurasian origin. She came from Rangkasbitung in an island of Java from Dutch East Indies which is now known as Indonesia. In the year 1962, the family of Van Halen shifted to Netherlands
in United States of America. He had
settled at Pasadena, California. Eddie along with older brother named Alex Van
Halen had been naturalized in the form of citizen of U.S. Piano training was given to the brothers when the children began
at six years old. They went to Pasadena from
San Pedro to learn with his elderly piano teacher named Stasys
Kalvaitis. Eddie talked in the interview about his incapability to read the
music rather he had learned through listening and watching. For instance, at
the time of recitals of Mozart or Bach, he was going to improvise. Starting
from 1964 across 1967, he had gained first position in annual piano competition
organized at Long Beach City College. Alex starting playing guitar, Eddie presented the drum kit and
then he heard the performance of Alex on The Surfaris Drum Solo in a
song named Wipe Out. He began to learn electric guitar. He used to walk with guitar and
he played guitar for several hours. Eddie along with brother, Alex, created first band along with three
boys, beckoning themselves named The Broken Combs. They had
performed during the lunch in the Hamilton Elementary School located at
Pasadena. He gained fourth grade. Eddie narrated the supergroup named Cream's album named
“I'm So Glad.”and there is an album named Goodbye which has been awesome.
He
had learnt the solos of Eric Clapton completely. He gave a lecture at Smithsonian's National Museum of American
History in the year 2015. Eddie talked about the life along with American
Dream. He said: "We came here with approximately $50 and a piano, and we
didn't speak the language. Now look where we are. If that's not the American
dream, what is? Eddie along with Alex, his brother had played in band in the
year 1972. After 2 years, the band had modified the name to "Van
Halen" and they had been the major part of the music scene of Los Angeles at
popular clubs like Whisky a Go
Go. It is a great news that Van Halen got offer from Warner Records in
1977 for recording contract. The album named Van Halen
gained number 19 position in
the pop music charts of Billboard. It had turned out to be most successful
debuts in rock music. It has been known as hard rock and heavy
metal album. In the beginning of 1980s, Van Halen had performed rock acts of that
time. The album named 1984 which gained five-times platinum in that year after the launch. The lead
single named Jump turned out to be first hit of band. It had brought him the
nomination of Grammy. The band had gained 1992 Grammy Award for being the Best Hard
Rock Performance in the category of Vocals for that album named For
Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. In the year 2019, the band had gained the rank 20th in
the list of RIAA for best-selling artists having
sales of 56 million album across United States of America. The sales of
album has been greater than 80
million across the world. Van Halen had been 13 number-one hits at the chart for the Billboard's history of Mainstream Rock chart. VH1 gained the rank for being seventh for the band on that list of top 100 hard rock artists of all time!!! In 2007, Van Halen had gained the position of Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. Eddie had got an acclaim for the work of guitar for the band. Eddie had been involved with different projects and it consists
of solo work along with partnerships in the brother over film soundtracks like: 1.
The Wild Life 2.
Twister 3.
He had made musical collaborations
with bassist of Kiss named Gene Simmons along with Nicolette
Larson. He also worked for Michael Jackson along with Brian May. He also worked
with Sammy Hagar along with Black Sabbath. He collaborated with Roger Walters.
He worked with guitarist of Toto named Steve Lukather along with LL Cool J. Eddie had appeared in music video L.A is My
Lady of Frank Sinatra. He also participated in an episode named Two and A Half
Men. Van Halen had fought with drug abuse and alcoholism. He entered
rehabilitation for smoking and drinking in 2007. He had also undergone hip
replacement surgery in the year 1999. He had suffered from chronic avascular
necrosis. He had been treated in 1995. It could not be tolerated. In 2002, he
had tongue cancer. In 2012, Van Halen had undergone the emergency surgery for bout
of the diverticulitis. Recovery time needed due to the surgery had been
postponed of Van Halen for the tour dates enlisted in Japan.] Van
Halen had gone to hospital in 2019 after suffering from throat cancer. He
had suffered for five years. He had
left this world on 6th october, 2020, at 65 years old. | ||||||||
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