ho Is John Wines?
The 59-year-old from the southern UK calls himself the “Old Grey Guitarist.” He revealed on AGT that he teaches guitar to kids ages 5 to 18, adding, “The kids keep me young.”
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He did have an unusual start to his career.
“I used to be an electrician, but 20 years ago a chance meeting with someone said, ‘You should go into teaching,’ and I did,” Wines told the Judges and audience. “Now I’m here and I can’t believe it.”
On his website, Wines said his guitar students have “shared the stage with Joe Bonamassa and Bernie Marsden, amongst others” — two famous guitarists from America and the UK respectively.
Was John Wines Famous Before AGT?
You may have seen the Old Grey Guitarist’s popular songs and lessons on Instagram or Tik Tok. Wines said on his website he went viral last September, after about a year on social media.
He has 178,000 followers on Instagram, and a whopping 1.3 million followers on TikTok.
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Wines said on his website he’s now an official artist with guitar company D’Addario, and “offers of work and other endorsements are now flooding in with his newfound fame.”
