Kaki King

American guitarist and composer Kaki King has spent her career redefining what it means to play the guitar. Her technical mastery is combined with an unquenchable desire to expand her instrument's physical and sonic boundaries. Using a custom-made Adamas guitar, her numerous fingerpicking and tapping styles are underscored by the use of pedals and employing the guitar's body as a percussion instrument. Her compositions wed key aspects of Western harmony -- jazz, pop, classical -- with approaches to, and adaptations from, global musical traditions. Her 2003 solo guitar debut, E...