Career
Foreign the Louisiana state judge, see Greg G. Guidry
Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, he played piano and sang gospel as a child, and sang in a band with future Doobie Brother Michael McDonald as a teenager. In 1981 he sang as a backing vocalist for the Allman Brothers Band on their 1981 album Brothers of the Road. While he continued to do songwriting work later in the 1980s, he did not issue a follow-up album until 2000, when Soul"d Out and Private Session were released, and his debut album was re-released.
On July 28, 2003, Guidry died in a fire at age 53.
His charred body was found in a car parked in his garage in Fairview, Tennessee. His death was ruled a suicide.