Vernon Reid

Vernon Reid is a British-born American guitarist and producer who founded the rock band Living Colour. Raised in New York City after his birth in London, he attended Brooklyn Technical High School and New York University before coming to prominence in the 1980s with Ronald Shannon Jackson's avant-jazz-rock group The Decoding Society. Reid formed Living Colour in New York in 1984, and the band's debut, Vivid (1988), was certified double platinum, while Time's Up (1990) went gold and the group won two consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Hard Rock Performance. Living Colour broke up in 1995 and reformed in 2000. Reid also released the solo album Mistaken Identity (1996), produced Grammy-nominated records for Salif Keita and James Blood Ulmer, and in 2003 Rolling Stone placed him 66th among the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.