Stevie Ray Vaughan

What strikes me most about Stevie Ray Vaughan is the sheer density of his legacy. Seven years of mainstream work, and that is all he got, yet he dragged blues back into the spotlight during an era obsessed with synthesizers. I have heard countless guitarists chase his tone, but nobody matches the physicality of his playing, those heavy strings bent through pure Texas willpower. His death in 1990 at thirty-five remains one of music's cruelest losses. When I want to remember why the electric guitar matters, I put on his records. Few artists truly earn the word irreplaceable; he does, without argument.

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Name (English)

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Name (Japanese)

スティーヴィー・レイ・ヴォーン

Reading

すてぃーゔぃー・れい・ゔぉーん

Born

October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990

Origin

Dallas, Texas, United States

Occupation

guitarist / composer / singer-songwriter / blues musician / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

High school

Justin F. Kimball High School

Awards & achievements

• Grammy Awards

• Official sitehttps://srvofficial.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie%20Ray%20Vaughan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202937

Tags

• Texas
• guitarist
• composer
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.