Nick Lucas
Nick Lucas born Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese was an American singer and pioneer jazz guitarist, remembered as the grandfather of the jazz guitar, whose peak of popularity lasted from the mid1920s to the early 1930s.
Lucas was born in Newark, New Jersey, from Italian ancestors. In 1922, at the age of 25, he gained renown with his hit renditions of Picking the Guitar and Teasing the Frets for Pathe Records. In 1923, Gibson Guitars proposed to build him a concert guitar with an extra deep body. Known as the Nick Lucas Special, it has been a popular model with guitarists since. In the same year, he began a successful career in recording phonograph records for Brunswick and remained one of their exclusive artists until 1932.
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