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Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece... band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top. Beard was born in Frankston, Texas and attended Irving High School in Irving, Texas. In late 1969 he joined The Moving Sidewalks guitarist and vocalist Gibbons' ZZ Top. Beard also introduced Gibbons to bassist and vocalist Dusty Hill, with whom Beard had played in the bands American Blues, the Warlocks, and the Cellar Dwellers. After honing their trademark "Texas boogie-blues-rock" style, they released their aptly titled "ZZ Top's First Album" on London Records in January, 1971. When ZZ Top started, Beard was known by the nickname "Rube" and was credited as "Rube Beard" on the first album and on Tres Hombres, the band's third album, but is listed under his real name on Rio Grande Mud, their second album. After Tres Hombres, he was credited as "Frank Beard" on all the band's albums. Ironically, despite his name, Beard is the only member of ZZ Top who does not wear a beard.
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Davíd Garza is an Austin-based, American singer-songwriter who infuses rock and pop with a Latin feel and whose vocal style draws comparisons to... Freddie Mercury, Jeff Buckley, Donovan and Robert Plant. In 1989, following stints in numerous high-school bands, Garza enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin, where he and his band Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom gained industry attention for Garza's combination of pop-savvy songwriting and Robert Plant-style vocals. After leaving the group to go solo, he formed a new backup band and gigged continually around and outside the Texas area, billed as Davíd Garza & The Lovebeads and later as DAH-VEED. A third generation Mexican-American, David grew up between Dallas and Fort Worth. Before he was old enough to get into clubs, Garza was handpicked by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians to open for them in the funky warehouse district of Deep Ellum. He played solo gigs by night and attended Catholic high school by day.
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Chris Christian is a songwriter, record producer, and a record label executive. His songs have been recorded by Elvis Presley, Olivia Newton-John,... Natalie Cole, Sheena Easton, The Pointer Sisters, Al Jarreau, The Carpenters, Amy Grant, Patti Austin, Dionne Warwick, Amy Grant, The Imperials, B.J. Thomas, B W Stevenson, Marilyn McCoo, Dan Peek , Cheryl Ladd, Jane Oliver, Sandi Patty, Ali Lohan, and others. As a member of the trio of Cotton, Lloyd & Christian in the early 1970s, he enjoyed two top 40 Billboard Hits on 20th Century Records. Christian also played guitar in the Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, and Wayne Newton, band. As a record producer, he is best known for starting Amy Grant's music career by signing her at age 16 to his production company and playing a demo of one of her songs over the telephone to Myrrh Records executive Stan Moser. Christian produced her first album and acted as executive producer for her second, handing over production duties to his college friend Brown Bannister. His company continued to publish and own her songs until 1997 when he sold them to Gaylord Entertainment.
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James Norman "Jim" Beaver, Jr. is an American stage, film, and television actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian. He is perhaps most... familiar to worldwide audiences as the gruff but tenderhearted prospector Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, a starring role which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting after three decades of supporting work in films and TV. He currently portrays Bobby Singer in the CW television series Supernatural. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April 2009. Beaver was born in Laramie, Wyoming, the son of Dorothy Adell and James Norman Beaver, Sr. , a minister. His father was of French and English heritage , and his mother is Scots-German-Cherokee and a descendant of senator, governor, and three-time U.S. Attorney General John J. Crittenden.
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Jason Jay McKeever is an American singer-songwriter & composer. Jason McKeever is an acoustic folk rock singer/songwriter from Logansport,... Indiana, United States. Born in Irving, Texas 1976 to Dalton & Marquita McKeever, Jason would spend the next 25 years moving every two years all over the midwest. Living in small towns in Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas has given him a unique feel and musical style. Jason starting playing guitar in high school with friends and continued during his short time at Columbia College, in Missouri. Songwriting began to influence Jason after a 3 month trip to Europe in 2000. After Returning to the states Jason to write and improve with several local musicians and writing whenever possible. Also in Logansport, Indiana Jason has existed in two incarnations. The first being Ditch, and later, Live Fridays with Scott & Jason and currently with Barefoot Murphy. The acoustic rock style of the latter duo and the vocal styles of Jason McKeever & Pat Murray gives the duo their unique sound.
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Ricky Trammell is a film actor.

Mark Watters is a five-time Emmy Award winning American composer of music for film and television. He currently lives in Chatsworth with his wife... Vanessa. Watters was born in Irving, Texas and majored in Saxophone at the University of Southern California. Mark served as the music director of the Centennial Olympics in 1996, and the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002. As part of his work with country music star Trisha Yearwood, Watters has served as guest conductor for ensembles such as The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The London Symphony, The Detroit Symphony, and The Atlanta Symphony.
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