David T. Walker born 25 June

David T. Walker (born June 25, 1941) is an American soul/R&B, and jazz guitarist. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued fifteen albums in his own name and has performed on over 2,500 Albums, Film Soundtracks, TV, and Radio Commercials beginning in 1961. He has received numerous achievement awards including Gold & Platinum Records. 

David T. Walker was born to a Native American mother and African American father in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the eldest child in a family of ten. His parents migrated to San Pedro, CA when He was two years old then  relocated to Central California when he was 7 years old. He attended David Starr Jordan High School in the Watts area of Los Angeles. Started playing the saxophone in the fourth grade and also had begun to hear Music from the local people and Family members. At age 14, His Family moved to Watts, part of Los Angeles. 

At age 16, he taught himself how to play guitar and began working in juke joints and Blues Clubs etc. While in High School, he joined the group called The Kinfolks, who traveled the entire USA many times, High School playing and traveling all the back roads and out of the way Chitlin Circuits and Theatre Musical Circuits for 7 years. Their road gigs included time with The Olympics, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Etta James, and Little Willie John, just to name a few. The Kinfolks joined Motown Records, and worked/traveled with Artists, such as Martha and the Vandellas etc. 

                        

At age 28, He signed a recording contract and His first Solo Album “The Sidewalk” and since 1967 has released fifteen solo albums. He has also been a session rhythm and lead guitarist, appearing on numerous soul, R&B, and jazz releases. His backup work was featured on several singles and albums, including Love Unlimited Orchestra's big hit single Love's Theme.(1974), Stevie Wonder's Innervisions (1973); Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On (1973) and I Want You (1976); Carole King's Fantasy (1973); the Jackson 5's Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, ABC, and Maybe Tomorrow, single "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1971); Michael Jackson's Ben, single "Got To Be There" (1971); Nick De Caro album "Italian Graffiti", song "Under the Jamican Moon" (1974), Afrique on its 1973 Afro funk release Soul Makossa, Smokey Robinson's pop hit Cruisin' (1979) Bobby Womack's album The Poet (1981), and LeVert's R&B hit (Pop Pop Pop) Goes My Mind (1986). 

Other musicians Walker has worked with over the years include James Brown (1973), Ray Charles, LeVert, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack(1981), Smokey Robinson, Leon Ware, Barry White & Love Unlimited Orchestra, Four Tops, Wah Wah Watson, Chuck Rainey, Donald Byrd, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Billy Preston, the Sylvers, Quincy Jones, Hampton Hawes, Monk Higgins, Willie Hutch, Jeffrey Osborne, Johnny Bristol, Solomon Burke, Cannonball Adderley, B.B. King, the Friends of Distinction, the Crusaders, Joe Sample, Paul Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Sérgio Mendes, Stanley Turrentine, Marlena Shaw, Blue Mitchell, Gloria Scott, and Boz Scaggs. 

His song "On Love" was sampled on the breakbeat compilation album Tribe Vibes Vol. 2 by the group A Tribe Called Quest and on the collaborative album Alfredo by Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist. His guitar riff on Joe Sample's "In All My Wildest Dreams" (from Rainbow Seeker) was sampled on Tupac Shakur's song "Dear Mama". 

Walker played in Bill Cosby's all-star band at the 2008 Playboy Jazz Festival. He has gained popularity in Japan for playing guitar and he also leads his group on tours of Japan each year. He recently toured Japan with Marlena Shaw, Larry Carlton and Brazilian artist Ed Motta. 

His Music is loved and respected by generations of music lovers and artists. He has been sampled by Hip Hop Artists such as Tupac Shakur, A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock , De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, and many others. 

(Edited from Wikipedia & David T. Walkers website)