Lonnie Johnson
Guitarist
Jazz guitarist who invented the single-string solo and who was also was the first musician to play an electrically-amplified violin.
He was on a tour of England with his musical revue and returned to the U.S. find his family wiped out by a flu epidemic.
He toured with Bessie Smith in 1929.
He was born into a musical family in New Orleans.
He influenced a generation of great jazz musicians, like Louis Armstrong.