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Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950, McComb, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, living in Austin, Texas. He began leading bands as an adolescent in McComb, Mississippi. In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Dykes has also had a successful career as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries. Among his solo albums are Blues Bag from 1991, and Muddy Springs Road from 1994.

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  • عمر كينت ديكس (بالإنجليزية: Omar Kent Dykes)‏ هو مغني أمريكي، ولد في 1950 في ماكومب في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950, McComb, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, living in Austin, Texas. He began leading bands as an adolescent in McComb, Mississippi. In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Dykes has also had a successful career as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries. Among his solo albums are Blues Bag from 1991, and Muddy Springs Road from 1994. An Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee, he was afflicted in 2017 with a skin illness that wasted away the flesh of his arms, and he lost the ability to perform in public. In 2020 he published a memoir, OMAR DYKES: The Life and Times of a Poor and Almost Famous Bluesman. (en)
  • Kent "Omar" Dykes, född 1950 i McComb, Mississippi, är en amerikansk bluessångare och gitarrist, numera boende i Austin, Texas. Omar Dykes började i tidiga tonåren hänga runt scenen i de svarta kvarteren i hemstaden McComb i Mississippi. Känslan för blues och rhythm and blues kom naturligt och det tog inte länge förrän Omar som ensam vit kille uppträdde i lokala svarta bluesband. Han bildade snart sitt eget band, the Howlers, som i början ägnade sig åt rå blues, med influenser av Howlin' Wolf och liknande shouters. Under det sena 1970-talet kom till Austin, Texas, där bandet möttes av stor uppskattning och Omar fick tillfälle att bredda sin stil med andra influenser, alltifrån från tidig Elvis-rockabilly och country till den hårdsvängande Austin-stilen. Omar & the Howlers gjorde stor succé inför den kräsna Texaspubliken och bandet framröstades två år i rad till Best Blues Band in Austin framför konkurrenter som Stevie Ray Vaughan och The Fabulous Thunderbirds. (sv)
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  • Omar and the Howlers playing at the Saxon in Austin, Texas (en)
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  • Omar Kent Dykes (en)
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  • Blues guitarist and singer (en)
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  • عمر كينت ديكس (بالإنجليزية: Omar Kent Dykes)‏ هو مغني أمريكي، ولد في 1950 في ماكومب في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950, McComb, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, living in Austin, Texas. He began leading bands as an adolescent in McComb, Mississippi. In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Dykes has also had a successful career as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries. Among his solo albums are Blues Bag from 1991, and Muddy Springs Road from 1994. (en)
  • Kent "Omar" Dykes, född 1950 i McComb, Mississippi, är en amerikansk bluessångare och gitarrist, numera boende i Austin, Texas. Omar Dykes började i tidiga tonåren hänga runt scenen i de svarta kvarteren i hemstaden McComb i Mississippi. Känslan för blues och rhythm and blues kom naturligt och det tog inte länge förrän Omar som ensam vit kille uppträdde i lokala svarta bluesband. Han bildade snart sitt eget band, the Howlers, som i början ägnade sig åt rå blues, med influenser av Howlin' Wolf och liknande shouters. (sv)
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  • عمر كينت ديكس (ar)
  • Omar Kent Dykes (en)
  • Kent Dykes (sv)
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