Buddy Holly: A Brief Biography

Buddy Holly, was “born on September 7,1936” (Biography.com Editors). Holly was “born as Charles Hardin Holley” (“Buddy Holly”). Buddy was a nickname given to him by his mother, because she thought Charles was too big of a name for her little boy. Holly, was the name given to him after a spelling error on his first contract Buddy was an “American singer/songwriter” (Biography.com Editors). Buddy Holly’s musical talent was pretty obvious due to the fact that he had learned how to play 4 different instruments “violin to piano to steel guitar before switching to the standard acoustic model”(Draper) all before the age of 11. His interest in music at such a young age would foreshadow for his heavily involved musical future. In early 1956, Holly and