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Richard Gilewitz (born August 16, 1959, San Diego, California, U.S.A.) is a 6 and 12-string fingerstyle acoustic guitarist, composer, teacher, and author. Influenced and inspired by fingerpicking masters such as Leo Kottke and John Fahey, the music of Kraftworks and the Archies, and the classical world of David Walbert and John Williams, Gilewitz draws on the genres of blues, folk, classical, pop, and the traditional. Formally a computer programmer with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, Gilewitz left corporate life in the 1980's to become a full-time musician, opening for major acts on the circuit while branching out on his own.