![]() He was able to secure a recording contract and released his first two albums in 1936. He later moved to Chicago, where he mainly played jazz music for radio programs. He found a job playing guitar in a radio band in St. He had an obvious talent and dropped out of high school at the age of seventeen to pursue his career in music. He found enough time to become a marvellous Jazz guitarist (His style can be compared to Django Reinhardt) while he was experimenting with electronic parts. At the age of thirteen Les Paul was already good enough to play his first gigs as a Country Music guitarist. He went on with the piano and the banjo but he abandoned the banjo soon to learn how to play the guitar. Paul started his musical career by the age of eight when he learned to play the harmonica. Most people mistake him with his biggest invention: The Gibson Les Paul solidbody guitar. Les Paul is also known as a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar, Multitrack Recording, and various reverb effects. He is known to be one of the most important figures in the development of modern electric guitars and recording techniques. Lester William Polfus (born on June 9,1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin),better known as Les Paul is an American guitarist. People are always surprised when they meet me and get to know that I am NOT a guitar and NOT dead yet.Les Paul ![]()
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