Gayla Drake (born December 3, 1964, in Iowa) is an American

guitarist A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselv ...

and singer/songwriter.

Biography

Drake was born in

Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...

on December 3, 1964. She began playing the guitar at the age of 4 and performed

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, and

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throughout her formative years, finally recording her first CD of original music in 1994. She has released 14 additional recordings since that time, along with music for public television and independent films. She was interim managing editor of

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for several months in 2009.

Discography

*1995 – ''Gayla Drake Paul'' *1995 – ''Waiting for the Spark'' *1997 – ''How Can I Keep From Singing?'' *1999 – ''A Woman’s Touch'' *2005 – ''The Time Between Times'' *2000 – ''The Next Hill'' *2002 – ''Retrospective'' *2005 – ''Restless'' *2005 – ''I Know This Road'' *2005 – ''Broken Blues'' *2005 – ''The Joy Tree'' *2006 – ''Here in the Center of the World'' with Eric Douglas *2006 – ''Ethik: Blues and Mud Flowers'' *2007 – ''The Wheel'' *2008 – ''Pour Me''

References

External links

Gayla Drake website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Drake, Gayla American women singer-songwriters Living people American acoustic guitarists 1964 births Place of birth missing (living people) Guitarists from Iowa 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American women guitarists 21st-century American women Singer-songwriters from Iowa