Randy California

Quick Facts

Full Name	Randy California
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Feb 20, 1951(1951-02-20)
Age	73
Date Of Death	1997-01-02
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Aquarius

Randy California Biography

Randy California is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on February 20, 1951 in California, United States. Spirit was the original member of the psychedelic rock band Spirit, and he is now a deceased rock guitarist.

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California was born as Randy Craig Wolfe into a musical Jewish family in Los Angeles and spent his early years studying varied styles at the family’s Los Angeles folk club, the Ash Grove. His uncle, Ed Pearl, was the founder of the Ash Grove. He was 15 years old when his mother Bernice Pearl and new stepfather, Ed Cassidy (later to become a founding member of the band Spirit, with Randy), moved to New York City in the summer of 1966 because Cassidy had a number of jazz gigs lined up. It was there, at Manny’s Music, that Randy met Jimi Hendrix. He played in Hendrix’s band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames that summer. California, Cassidy and Pearl lived in an apartment building in Forest Hills (Queens), New York called the Balfour, whose other residents included future Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker, who cited California’s blues-based guitar style as an influence on his own playing.

Their first, self-titled, album was released in January 1968, a month before California’s 17th birthday. He then wrote the band’s biggest hit, 1968’s “I Got a Line on You” for Spirit’s second album, The Family That Plays Together. He also wrote the single “1984”, released in early 1970 and banned from most AM radio stations at that time. He also penned Spirit’s other hit, “Nature’s Way”, for the band’s best-selling album, Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. Christopher Cross covered “Nature’s Way” on his 1994 album “Windows.”

He was a member of a musical family.

Randy California Net Worth

Randy California is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Randy California 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

So that his stepfather could continue his jazz career, he moved to New York from Los Angeles.

While rescuing his son from the rip tide, he drowned.

Randy Craig Wolfe (February 20, 1951 – January 2, 1997), known as Randy California, was a guitarist, singer and songwriter and one of the original members of the rock group Spirit, formed in 1967.

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Who is Randy California Dating?

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California headed to England and recorded his third solo album, the contemporary hard rock Restless for which his friend British Drummer Preston Heyman (who played on the track “Jack Rabbit”) secured a deal with Phonogram for in late 1985. Following a few live dates in England, California returned to the United States and resumed touring extensively with Cassidy, Monahan, and Waterbury. There was one more solo album from California: a collection of material entitled Shattered Dreams that was released in 1986.

Facts & Trivia

Randy Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Randy California celebrates birthday on February 20 of every year.

Spirit was invited to open for Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. However, band manager/producer Lou Adler—who had been one of the founders of the rock festival movement two years earlier, as a partner (with Mamas & Papas linchpin John Phillips) in the Monterey Pop Festival, where Hendrix premiered in the U.S.—opposed it because the band was busy promoting their latest album, Clear.

What happened to Randy California from Spirit?

Death. California drowned in the Pacific Ocean in 1997 at the age of 45 while rescuing his 12-year-old son Quinn from a rip current near his mother’s home at Molokai, Hawaii. He managed to push Quinn (who survived) toward the shore.

Was Randy California a good guitarist?

California was also a guitarist among guitarists. He could play like Hendrix or Clarence White, Roger McGuinn or Wes Montgomery and did so often within the framework of the same song. More important than his incredible music talents, Randy California was a fine human being.

Is Randy California alive?

January 2, 1997

Was Randy Wolfe married?

Anne Michael Becker and Randy Jason Wolfe were married Saturday evening by Rabbi Alan LaPayover at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The bride, 33, is the marketing director of the Tribeca Film Institute, an affiliate of the Tribeca Film Festival.