Buddy Guy was born on July 30, 1936, in Lettsworth, Louisiana. He worked in the LSU facilities services department before leaving to pursue a music career. On September 25, 1957, he boarded a train in New Orleans, Louisiana, and arrived in Chicago to play the blues. He became an accomplished Louisiana music legend and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 by the 43rd President, George Walker Bush. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2005, the Louisiana Hall of Fame in 2008, and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012. He won 7 Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 37 W. C. Handy Awards, more than any other blues musician, and a Billboard Century Award. He also received an honorary doctorate degree from LSU for his distinguished music career and was listed number 23 in Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists'. Buddy Guy was born to play the guitar and went from the "Outhouse to the White House."
