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The immense Kim Wilson<\/strong> (Detroit, 1951), the only original member of the group, will receive the III Bilbao Blues Festival Award for his career.<\/strong> Singer and harmonica virtuoso, he began playing the instrument at the age of 17, influenced by masters such as Little Walter, George \u201cHarmonica\u201d Smith, Lazy Lester and James Cotton.<\/strong><\/p>\n A true vocalist and tireless frontman, Wilson has led The Fabulous Thunderbirds through the years, remaining faithful to the sounds of blues, rhythm and blues and rock and roll and knowing how to evolve over the years. Such luminaries of the genre as Muddy Waters have recognised his enormous talent, referring to him as \u201cthe greatest harmonica player since Little Walker\u201d. In 2016 he was honoured with an award at the prestigious Blues Music Awards in the \u201cInstrumentalist-Harmonica\u201d category. He has also been nominated five times for Grammy Awards.<\/strong> The Detroit native continues to play nearly 300 concerts a year, both at festivals and blues clubs around the world, both as the leader of the Fabolous Thunderbids and with the Blues Allstars.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kim_Wilson-rotated.webp” title_text=”Kim_Wilson” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ border_radii=”on|2px|2px|2px|2px” border_width_all=”8px” border_color_all=”#FFFFFF” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ global_colors_info=”{}” align_last_edited=”on|phone” sticky_enabled=”0″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”center”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjI3OTc2In19@” button_text=”EDICI\u00d3N ANTERIOR” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _dynamic_attributes=”button_url” _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”24px” button_text_color=”#000000″ button_bg_color=”#FFFFFF” button_border_width=”5px” button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_radius=”3px” button_letter_spacing=”2px” button_font=”Obviously Condense semibold||||||||” button_icon=”A||divi||400″ button_icon_color=”#000000″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” button_bg_color__hover=”#AFDAD3″ button_bg_enable_color__hover=”on” button_alignment=”center” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" III Bilbao Blues AwardKIM WILSON, III PREMIO BILBAO BLUES FESTIVAL 2024 Kim Wilson, legendary frontman The immense Kim Wilson (Detroit, 1951), the only original member of the group, will receive the III Bilbao Blues Festival Award for his career. Singer and harmonica virtuoso, he began playing the instrument at the age of 17, influenced by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29909","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29909"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31149,"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29909\/revisions\/31149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bilbaobluesfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}