Greg Guidry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Greg Guidry

American musician

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1950

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Date of Death: 28-Jul-2003

Profession: singer-songwriter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

For the Louisiana state judge, see Greg G.
GuidryGregory Mark Guidry (January 23, 1954 – July 28, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter. Born in St.
Louis, Missouri, he played piano and sang gospel as a child, and sang in a band with future Doobie Brother Michael McDonald as a teenager.
With quite a bit of help from Rich Lang, friend and fellow multi-talented musician, they wrote and recorded several demos, drove to New York City from St.
Louis and signed a publishing contract with CBS Records in 1977 and wrote songs for Climax Blues Band, Robbie Dupree, Exile, Johnnie Taylor, Sawyer Brown, and Reba McEntire.
In 1981 he sang as a backing vocalist for the Allman Brothers Band on their 1981 album Brothers of the Road.
He signed with Columbia in 1982 and released an album, Over the Line, which produced two hit singles, "Goin' Down" (US #17, US AC #11) and a duet with his sister Sandy, "Into My Love" (US #92).While he continued to do songwriting work later in the 1980s, he did not issue a follow-up album until 2000, when Soul'd Out and Private Session were released, and his debut album was re-released. On July 28, 2003, Guidry died in a fire at age 49.
His charred body was found in a car parked in his garage in Fairview, Tennessee.
His death was ruled a suicide.