Mr. Gregory Mark "Greg" Guidry

Born on 23 January 1954 in St. Louis, MO, Greg Guidry was a singer, songwriter and pianist on the national stage. He began singing gospel songs as a child with his family. After taking piano lessons in his teens, Greg sang with local bands throughout his high school and college years. After college he started composing songs with his friend Rich Lang and in 1977 signed a contract with CBS Songs Publishing. Many recording artists including the Climax Blues Band, Ronnie Dupree, Exile, Johnny Taylor, Sawyer Brown and Reba McEntire have recorded Greg's songs. Greg signed a recording contract in 1982 with Columbia Records and that year released his first solo album Over the Line - singing in his trademark West Coast style. Considered one of the finest LPs of the 1980s, this album had two hit songs Goin' Down, which reached #17 on the U. S. Pop Charts in 1982 and Into My Love, a duet with his sister Sandy, #92 on the charts. During the 1980s Greg concentrated on songwriting and began his own publishing company "Send Us Music, Inc.". In this venture he worked with many well-known recording artists including the Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Cobb, Charlie Daniels, John Ryan and Chip Young. In 2000 through his GMG Productions label, Greg Guidry released two very successful albums Soul'D Out and Greg Guidry: Private Session. Tragically, on 28 July 2003 the music world lost a great talent when Greg Guidry died in Fairview, TN at the age of 49.