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| Developing eyes for the guitar at age 7, Brookfield’s Harry Hmura fully cemented his lifelong passion to the instrument a few years later when his mother took him to a B.B. King concert. B.B. penned the boy the simple, yet sage piece of autograph advice, "Stay with it." Hmura took to it to heart, eventually scoring recording and touring opportunities with the James Cotton Blues Band and Sugar Blue, followed by many sessions with Chicago stalwarts like Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters and Johnny Winters.
Somewhere down that blues path, though, the guitarist began dabbling in jazz, first aligning recording, writing and production credits on a collaboration with smooth-jazz peer Brian Culbertson, and later on his own 2003 debut, Passion. Hmura uses the album to venture off into an almost Latin-inspired journey, trading electric stomps for quick chord sweeps and noodley solos. While his latest Face To The Sun (2006), ups the ante into Lindsey Buckingham, singer/songwriter territory, complete with smoke-piped wisdoms like "Gone Too Long," and "I’ll Play It Low."
Aside from his album and touring inclinations, Hmura has also garnered some assistant scoring credits on radio and TV (Discovery channel, WGN, A&E, VH1, etc.), as well as video games (Microsoft). Additionally, he is the founding member of m4apes, a grass roots campaign that "promotes and endorses the discontinuation of our closest relative, chimpanzees and orangutans in entertainment." (G. Paul)
For more information, visit their website: http://www.harryhmura.com/
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