Don Airey

Person · Male

Don Airey

From
Sunderland, United Kingdom
Since
1948–present
Rating
★ 4 (1 votes)
Releases
7
  • hard rock
  • symphonic prog
  • symphonic rock

About

Donald Smith Airey (born 21 June 1948) is an English musician. He came to prominence as the keyboardist of the rock band Rainbow during 1979–1982. He has been the keyboardist of Deep Purple since 2002, after the retirement of Jon Lord. In addition to his tenures with Rainbow and Deep Purple, he has had a long and productive career playing with many other rock and metal acts, including Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Saxon, Wishbone Ash, Colosseum II, Ten, Sinner, Michael Schenker, Empire, Brian May, Divlje jagode and Living Loud. He has also worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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Albums 7

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Also known as

Don Airy · Donald Smith Airey

Identifiers

ISNI
0000000114507142
IPI
00046559948

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