Debra "Honey" Piazza (born April 24, 1951) is an American
piano player. She is a founding member of the band
Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers.
Background
Piazza was born in
Fairfield, California on April 24, 1951.
Her father was in the
Air Force and her family moved to
England for three years, when she was a child. There she started taking classical
piano lessons at the age of four and pursued the lessons until the age of 16 after they had moved back to California. She enjoyed playing jam sessions with her friends, but she really discovered piano
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
when she heard a record of
Otis Spann
Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist.
Early life
Sources differ over Spann's early years. Some state that he was born in Jackson, Miss ...
. For the next two years she would practice extensively.
In 1972 she went to
Chicago, and played with a number of blues musicians. After her return to California she saw a concert of
Rod Piazza, who at the time was playing with a band called Bacon Fat. Being impressed with his music she arranged to meet him for an audition. As a result, she joined the band and has played with Rod Piazza ever since.
They got married several years later and reside in
Riverside, California.
Discography
(Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers)
*''For The Chosen Who'' - 2005
*''Keepin' It Real'' - 2004
*''Beyond The Source'' - 2001
*''Here and Now'' - 1999
*''Tough and Tender'' - 1997
*''Live at B.B. King's Club'' - 1994
*''Alphabet Blues'' - 1992
*''In The Dark'' - 1991
References
External links
The Mighty Flyers' website
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1952 births
Living people
American blues pianists
Boogie-woogie pianists
Blind Pig Records artists
Musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area
People from Fairfield, California
20th-century American pianists
20th-century American women pianists
21st-century American pianists
21st-century American women pianists