WAYNE, PA —Greg Sover got his first guitar as a gift from his father, Carlos, when he was five years old and living in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“I loved it,” said 38-year-old Sover, who grew up in Mount Airy and has been playing guitar and singing ever since.
“I love guitar. I wanted to be good at it. I watched my Dad play. I was one of those kids who knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to play like Jimi Hendrix.”
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Sover plays his own version of Hendrix songs on his new album, “His Story,” which includes bass player Kenny Aaronson, who played with Bob Dylan and Hall and Oates, and drummer David Uosikkinen, who played with the Hooters.
In the beginning
Sover, son of Carlos and Michelone, is a first-generation American of Haitian descent.
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He grew up listening to music from the 1960s and 70s, including Led Zeppelin, the Commodores, Hip Hop, Blues, Country, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, Phish, Grateful Dead and many more.
“Live music is so important to me,” he said.
He started out playing in local clubs in the Philadelphia area, including Lickety Splits and Dawson Street Pun, Falls Taproom, and Ardmore Music Hall.
Sover and his band made the semifinals for two consecutive years at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis and won the 2015 Hard Rock Rising competition at Philadelphia’s Hard Rock Cafe in 2015.
Sover, who resides in Abington, writes his own music and sings. Sover said just like he watched his father play guitar, his 9-month-old son, Damian, watches him play guitar.
Sover will be playing songs from his new album, “His Story,” at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26 at 118 North, in downtown Wayne. Tickets are available here.
Bill Cox, a bassist who played with Hendrix, played with Sover on two of the songs on the new album.
He said the show will include 90 minutes of good music, including a version of Jimi Hendrix, “Manic Depression.”
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