Chicago’s South Side is where Harry Hmura was born and raised. It’s also where he became the musician he is today. It all began when he took his first guitar lesson at age 7. But the fire was lit in his 13 year old soul when he saw B. B. King perform live and then met him after the show. A circle having been opened, he was inspired to follow the musician’s path. P3) As Harry grew a little older, he realized that his own neighborhood was the center of the blues world, and his guitar lessons moved from the scales and exercises of his childhood and on to the bent notes, expressiveness, and power coming out of the Checkerboard, Theresa’s and other fabled clubs, where he first sat at the feet of and then sat in with a who’s who of blues guitar masters, from Lonnie Brooks to Jimmy Johnson to Buddy Guy. It was during these years that he found his own musical voice, developing a unique blues/rock style deeply influenced by his experience with those Chicago giants.