Introducing Rock Hendricks
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Rock Hendricks was born almost blind, but at seven received the gift of sight, and then first laid eyes on a saxophone.
"I didn't have a choice," he says. It was destiny calling.
Helping make the match, Rock’s dad bought him his first sax when he was just nine. He proved to be a prodigy. By age 15, Rock was performing with the soul groups of Oakland, California paying his dues to earn the true soul heard in his music today.
Love at first sight has led to an extraordinary career playing sax for some of the greatest musicians of our time, including Michael Jackson, John Lee Hooker, Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, The Funkadelics, Michael Bublé, Marvin Gaye Jr., Marvin Gaye Jr. III, The Temptations, Bobby Womack, Coke Escovedo, Walter Becker and Don Fagan, Steve Arrington, The Family Stone, Bonnie Raitt, Leon Russell, Dave Mason, Sammy Hagar, Motown Records, Gabriel Hasselbach, Jeff Lorber, and many more.
Since 2009, Rock has recorded nine Billboard #1 smooth jazz hits with Paul Hardcastle.
It’s truly a match made in heaven – the saxophone, and Rock Hendricks.
In this episode of Plugged In and Turned On in Paradise Rock shares some stories from his stellar career, and tears it up on stage with "SuperGroup" bandmates Tony Lindsay, Chris Cain, Ed Roth, Myron Dove and Deszon Claiborne.
"I didn't have a choice," he says. It was destiny calling.
Helping make the match, Rock’s dad bought him his first sax when he was just nine. He proved to be a prodigy. By age 15, Rock was performing with the soul groups of Oakland, California paying his dues to earn the true soul heard in his music today.
Love at first sight has led to an extraordinary career playing sax for some of the greatest musicians of our time, including Michael Jackson, John Lee Hooker, Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, The Funkadelics, Michael Bublé, Marvin Gaye Jr., Marvin Gaye Jr. III, The Temptations, Bobby Womack, Coke Escovedo, Walter Becker and Don Fagan, Steve Arrington, The Family Stone, Bonnie Raitt, Leon Russell, Dave Mason, Sammy Hagar, Motown Records, Gabriel Hasselbach, Jeff Lorber, and many more.
Since 2009, Rock has recorded nine Billboard #1 smooth jazz hits with Paul Hardcastle.
It’s truly a match made in heaven – the saxophone, and Rock Hendricks.
In this episode of Plugged In and Turned On in Paradise Rock shares some stories from his stellar career, and tears it up on stage with "SuperGroup" bandmates Tony Lindsay, Chris Cain, Ed Roth, Myron Dove and Deszon Claiborne.
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