Alex Ligertwood

Alex Ligertwood

Ligertwood at the World Classic Rockers Concert, 23 June 2007 Camarillo, California
Background information
Born 10 December 1946
Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Vocals, guitar, drums
Years active 1965-present
Associated acts The Senate, The Jeff Beck Group, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Santana, the Average White Band, World Classic Rockers, El Chicano

Alexander John "Alex" Ligertwood is a Scottish singer, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Santana (1979-1985, 1987, 1989–1991, 1992–1994). He is credited on songs by Santana, including "All I Ever Wanted (Santana song)|All I Ever Wanted", "You Know That I Love You", "Winning" and "Hold On". He also performed with The Senate (1960s), The Jeff Beck Group (1970) and Brian Auger's Oblivion Express (1971–72 and 2013–present). He also appeared with John Cipollina and friends (1988), the Average White Band (1989) and David Sancious.[1]

Ligertwood sang lead vocals on the song "Crank It Up" by The Dixie Dregs, from their albumIndustry Standard (1982), [2] as well as contributing the lead vocal on the song "Double Bad" from Jeff Lorber's album In the Heat of the Night (1984).[3]

During 2000 he toured with World Classic Rockers. More recently he sang on a version of the Scorpions song "Is There Anybody There" which appeared on drummer Herman Rarebell's solo album Acoustic Fever (2013). In 2014, Ligertwood's vocals were featured on tracks by El Chicano and in the same year he toured in Japan and Europe with Brian Auger and the Oblivion Express.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Alex Ligertwood interview". The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. 2008. Retrieved 2013-03-17.
  2. ↑ "Industry Standard". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  3. ↑ "In the heat of the night". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  4. ↑ "Brian Auger's Oblivion Express/The Band page". brianauger.com. Retrieved 2015-04-24.

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