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Jesse Cook

Born: November 29, 1964

Born in Paris on 29 November 1964 to photographer andfilmmaker John Cook and television director and producerHeather Cook, Jesse Cook spent the first few years of his lifemoving between Paris, Southern France and Barcelona. As atoddler he was fascinated by the guitar and tried to emulatethe sound he heard coming from his parents' recordings ofManitas de Plata, a famous Gypsy guitarist from the region ofSouthern France known as the Camargue.

After his parents separated, Cook and his sister accompaniedhis mother to her birth country, Canada. Recognizing themusical aptitude of her son, lessons followed at Toronto’s EliKassner Guitar Academy. Kassner's other famous pupil wasclassical guitarist Liona Boyd.