Terry Callier was a little-known singer-songwriter who mixed soul, folk and jazz
in his early years, but was rediscovered by a new audience at the turn of the
2000s. Born in Chicago on May 24, 1945, he studied piano from the age of three
and began composing as a child, later singing in doo-wop bands. He then learned
to play the guitar and made his stage debut when he was noticed and signed by
Chess Records, then Prestige, who signed him to record his first album, The New
Folk Sound of Terry Callier (1966), revealing his talent for writing at the
crossroads of soul and folk, in th...