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BILLY POWELL
Billy Powell's keyboards make Skynyrd's sound one of the most distinctive in rock and roll history -- a sound that has resonated with power and authority for over a quarter of a century.
Born the son of a Navy aviator in Corpus Christi, Texas on June 3, 1952, Billy grew up in a stern no-nonsense household. While Billy was still a toddler his father, Donald, was reassigned to a Navy base in Italy where his family -- wife, Marie and children, Billy, Ricky and Donna -- later joined him.
In Italy, Donald died of cancer in 1960 and the Powells returned to the United States where Marie took a civilian job at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.
Billy's mother enrolled him in Sanford Academy, a military boarding school located in Sanford, Florida.
Lynyrd skynyrd name originHere Billy first began developing his taste for music. Billy started taking piano lessons from a lady in Sanford named Madeleine Brown. His first music teacher soon taught Billy everything she knew. She swore he d
