Golio, Gary

Biography

A visual artist, musician, and psychotherapist, Gary Golio is the author of the New York Times- bestselling JIMI: Sounds Like A Rainbow – A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, recipient of a 2011 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award. His other books include When Bob Met Woody: The Story of the Young Bob Dylan; Spirit Seeker: The Musical Journey of John Coltrane; Bird & Diz – Two Friends Create Bebop; Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song; Carlos Santana – Sound of the Heart, Song of the World; SMILE – How Young Charlie Chaplin Taught the World to Laugh (and Cry); Dark Was the Night – Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars; Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge; and Everywhere Beauty is Harlem. Visit garygoilo.com.