Ricky Skaggs

Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs (18 de julio de 1954) es un cantante, músico, productor y compositor estadounidense de música country y bluegrass. Toca la mandolina principalmente, aunque también el fiddle, guitarra y banjo.

Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs en 2007
Información personal
Nombre de nacimiento	Ricky Lee Skaggs
Nacimiento	18 de julio de 1954 (70 años) Cordell (Estados Unidos)
Nacionalidad	Estadounidense
Información profesional
Ocupación	Cantautor, músico, cantante, banjista, mandolinista, guitarrista y productor discográfico
Área	Canto e individual double-skin hourglass-shaped drums, both heads played
Años activo	desde 1961
Géneros	Country, bluegrass y música cristiana
Instrumentos	Guitarra, mandolina y voz
Discográficas	Sugar Hill Records Epic Records
Sitio web	www.skaggsfamilyrecords.com
Distinciones	Medalla Nacional de las Artes

Neotradicionalismo y experimentación

Desde los 90, Skaggs abraza las raíces bluegrass a la par que experimenta con nuevos sonidos. Con su banda, los Kentucky Thunder, es un ganador permanente de Premios Grammy y de la Asociación internacional de música bluegrass por sus álbumes.

Discografía

• Ricky Skaggs discography

Premios

Premios Grammy

• 1983 Best Country Instrumental Performance: New South (J.D. Crowe, Jerry Douglas, Todd Phillips, Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs) for Fireball
• 1984 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Ricky Skaggs for Wheel Hoss
• 1986 Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist): Ricky Skaggs for Raisin' The Dickins
• 1991 Best Country Vocal Collaboration: Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner & Vince Gill for Restless
• 1999 Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Bluegrass Rules!
• 1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Clint Black, Joe Diffie, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt & Dwight Yoakam for Same Old Train
• 2000 Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Ancient Tones
• 2000 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Soldier Of The Cross
• 2003 Best Country Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for A Simple Life
• 2004 Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Brand New Strings
• 2006 Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for Instrumentals
• 2006 Best Musical Album For Children, "Songs From The Neighborhood, The Music Of Mr. Rogers"
• 2008 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Ricky Skaggs and The Whites for Salt Of The Earth
• 2009 Best Bluegrass Album Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass 1946 & 47

Premios CMA (Country Music Association)

• 1982 Male Vocalist of the Year: Ricky Skaggs
• 1982 Horizon Award: Ricky Skaggs
• 1983 Instrumental Group of the Year: Ricky Skaggs Band
• 1984 Instrumental Group of the Year: Ricky Skaggs Band
• 1985 Entertainer of the Year: Ricky Skaggs
• 1985 Instrumental Group of the Year: Ricky Skaggs Band
• 1987 Vocal Duo of the Year: Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White

Premios IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association)

• 1998 Instrumental Group Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• 1998 Album Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder for Bluegrass Rules!
• 1999 Instrumental Group Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• 2000 Instrumental Group Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• 2000 Instrumental Album Of The Year: David Grisman, Ronnie McCoury, Sam Bush, Frank Wakefield, Bobby Osborne, Jesse McReynolds, Ricky Skaggs & Buck White for Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
• 2000 Recorded Event Of The Year: David Grisman, Ronnie McCoury, Frank Wakefield, Sam Bush, Bobby Osborne, Jesse McReynolds, Ricky Skaggs & Buck White for Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
• 2002 Instrumental Group Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• 2003 Instrumental Group Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• 2004 Instrumental Group Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• 2005 Instrumental Group Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• 2006 Instrumental Group Of The Year: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• 2008 Recorded Event of the Year: Everett Lilly & Everybody and Their Brother; Featuring Everett Lilly, Bea Lilly, Charles Lilly, Daniel Lilly, Mark Lilly, Marty Stuart, Rhonda Vincent, Billy Walker, Ronnie McCoury, Rob McCoury, David Ball, Charlie Cushman, Larry Stephenson, Joe Spivey, Eddie Stubbs, Jason Carter, Dickey Lee, Freddy Weller, Mike Bub, Rad Lewis, Andy May, Darrin Vincent, Marcia Campbell, Clay Rigdon, Eric Blankenship and Bill Wolfenbarger (artists); Charles Lilly & Bill Wolfenbarger (producers); Swift River Music

BluegrassJournal.com Readers Poll: We Are Family; Jeff & Sheri Easter, The Lewis Family & The Easter Brothers (artists); Jeff & Sheri Easter (producers); Daywind Records

Otros

• R&R Best New Artist
• Billboard magazine's Artist of the Year
• Musician Magazine- Voted One of the Top 100 Guitarists of the Century
• Artist of the Decade- Listeners' Poll Award BBC Radio 2
• CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music rank #37 in 2003.
• Judge for the 2nd annual Independent Music Awards

Referencias

• Independent Music Awards - Past Judges
• Entrevista en 1997 Archivado el 3 de marzo de 2016 en Wayback Machine.
• Himes, Geoffrey. (1998). "Ricky Skaggs". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 486–7.
• Ricky Skaggs, age 7, plays with Flatt & Scruggs on the Martha White Show
• Artículos, etc
• Biografía

Enlaces externos

• Official Website
• Skaggs Family Records
• Ricky Skaggs en Internet Movie Database (en inglés).
• Ricky Skaggs en AllMusic

• Datos: Q1347095
• Multimedia: Ricky Skaggs / Q1347095