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Terry St. Clair
10+ albums
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Terry St Clair (born 1951 in Burslem, Staffordshire, England) is a musician, guitarist, folk music and blues composer, and prolific London busker. He also performs numerous blues and traditional folk covers. As a child St Clair (real name Terry Sharrott) demonstrated his desire to become a musician. He would try to play anything that could produce a tune. He grew up alongside his elder brother Ian Sharrott, who was also interested in music, but who chose to pursue a career in computers instead. St Clair and his family moved to Hinckley, Leicestershire in 1953. His parents encouraged his love of music, arranging for piano lessons at the age of nine. He also practised his singing skills as a member of the local church choir, where he also played the church organ. He was educated at Hinckley Grammar School, and it was at a school concert that older pupil Geoff Richardson performed the folk blues of Bert Jansch and Jackson C. Frank, inspiring St. Clair to take up the guitar. His first guitar was home-made, and hardly stayed in tune. Whilst working at the local printers W. Pickering and Sons. he and friends Pete Thomas and Mervin Wallace took over the running of the Bar W Folk Club in Barwell. After he left school, worked as an apprentice book-binder, enrolling at the Matthew Bolton College in Birmingham. During this five year period he spent most of his time playing guitar and singing in local folk clubs. St Clair started to write songs during this period. The first being "