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BIOGRAPHY
Born in Hamburg, West Germany, Weber started taking piano lessons aged
ten, in 1963. His sister introduced him to the blues by giving him records
of Lightnin' Hopkins, Michael Pewny, Champion Jack Dupree, Taj Mahal and
many others. At the age of sixteen he played in bars in the harbour of his
hometown Hamburg, where he met Hans-Georg Möller, another pianist, who
introduced him to the boogie-woogie style of playing piano.
There he also met the comedian Otto Waalkes, who booked him as opener for
his then-current tour. In 1975 he released his first album, The Boogie Man
on Otto Waalkes' Rüssl Räckords, which was awarded 'Deutscher
Schallplattenpreis 1976'. This album was partly recorded in the Fabrik
(Hamburg), where he has had a regular gig once a month for 14 years since
1976. In 1978 he traveled to the United States for the first time. In 1980
he became disc jockey at the local NDR radio station, where he hosted a
weekly Blues broadcast.
He played with Big Joe Williams, Abi Wallenstein, Henry Heggen, Axel
Zwingenberger, Jay McShann, James Booker, Chuck Berry and Champion Jack
Dupree at music festivals and in clubs all over Germany.
Due to illness, Vince Weber reduced his stage activities in later years.
He died on February 23, 2020, aged 66. (Wikipedia)