Jerry Garcia

Jerome John Garcia (an haifeshi ranar 1 ga watan Agusta, 1942 - zuwa ranar 9 ga watan Agusta , shekarata 1995) mawaƙin Ba'amurke ne wanda aka fi sani da kasancewarsa babban marubucin mawaƙa, jagoran guitarist, kuma mawaƙiyi tare da ƙungiyar rock Grateful Dead, wanda ya kafa kuma ya shahara a lokacin 1960s . : "Jerome John Garcia, ("JERRY"), U.S. musician (born Aug. 1, 1942, San Francisco, Calif.—died Aug. 9, 1995, Forest Knolls, Calif.), personified the hippie counterculture for three decades as the mellow leader of the rock band the Grateful Dead. Garcia was the singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist of the San Francisco-based group that emerged from the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic-drug-and-music scene in the mid-1960s." : "Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Jerry Garcia was best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, the rock band for which he served as de facto leader for 30 years, from 1965 until his death in 1995. [...] In addition to his musical efforts, Garcia was viewed as an icon and spokesman for the hippie movement of the 1960s, the counterculture fueled by psychedelic drugs and rock & roll that the Grateful Dead embodied for their fervent fans, the Deadheads, as well as to the public at large." An shigar da shi cikin Dutsen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a cikin shekarar 1994 a matsayin memba na Matattu Godiya.

A matsayinsa na ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa ta, Garcia ya yi tare da Godiya Matattu don dukan aikin ƙungiyar na tsawon shekaru 30 (daga shekarata 1965 – zuwa shekarar1995). An san shi sosai don wasan guitar na musamman, kuma yana matsayi na 13 a cikin labarin murfin "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" Rolling Stone  cikin shekarar 2003.  A cikin sigar na shekarar 2015 na jerin an sanya shi a #46. 

A cikin hira na shekarar 1993 tare da Rolling Stone, Garcia ya lura cewa "abin da nake so shine don ingantawa, don yin shi yayin da nake tafiya. 

A cikin shekarar 1986, ya shiga cikin suma mai ciwon sukari wanda ya kusan rasa ransa. Ya kasance yana zama a wani wurin gyaran magunguna a California lokacin da ya mutu sakamakon bugun zuciya a a ranar 9 ga watan Agusta,  1995, yana da shekaru 53.  : "JERRY Garcia, white-bearded leader of the 1960s cult rock band the Grateful Dead, died yesterday in a drug rehabilitation centre. The 53-year-old erstwhile hippie who founded the band 30 years ago was discovered dead by a counsellor at Serenity Knowles, a residential drug treatment centre near his home in Marin County, California."

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