In 1994, Horowitz released several albums on his own Laughing Bear label, including It's Chubby Time and Gas Money, before he obtained a recording contract with Sony Music/Okeh Records. Horowitz played more than 200 club dates a year through the 1990s. He won the New Artist of the Year award and as a result was chosen as the opening act at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1992. Horowitz first came to public attention after winning a national blues talent search sponsored by KLON, a public radio station in Long Beach, California, which is now known as KKJZ. In his early twenties, although he mainly played blues music, he also worked as backing for punk rock poet Richard Hell. Although he grew up in the 1970s, Horowitz was influenced by artists of the 1960s, including Jimi Hendrix and Cream, among others. At age thirteen Horowitz began playing drums shortly thereafter, he began listening to the music of the Rolling Stones and started playing guitar.
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