Marquise Knox

Marquise Knox (born February 8, 1991) is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Knox has performed alongside B.B. King, Pinetop Perkins and David "Honeyboy" Edwards. He has also performed at dozens of festivals, and toured across the US and Europe.

Life and career He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in a musical family whose roots originate in the cotton fields in country near Grenada, Mississippi, at the time of slavery in the United States. Lilly and Clifford became major influences in Knox's blues music upbringing. Here I Am contained nine tracks written by Knox, plus three reinventions of old Muddy Waters numbers.

In 2015, Knox journeyed to Argentina and was shocked by the abject poverty he witnessed. Utilising social media, Knox has posted a series of his views on life and music. He has been inspired by the Rev. William Barber and the racially inclusive Moral Mondays Movement. The collection included tracks such as "Can A Young Man Play the Blues", "One More Reason to Have the Blues" and "Bluesman". In 2019, Knox was asked to join ZZ Top and Cheap Trick on tour and played at 16 shows. At one point Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top had said to Knox, "Marquise, a lot of people think we play the blues. We play around it, at best we might emulate the sound. But you, you're young, can captivate an audience and you're black. You embody the essence of what the blues is all about". In 2020, Knox performed at the Bradenton Blues Festival. Knox performed at the 2026 Chicago Blues Festival, opening at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion on June 5.

Discography Albums Year Title Record label 2010 Man Child APO Records 2010 Marquise Knox APO Records 2011 Here I Am APO Records 2014 Marquise Knox (Volume 2) APO Records 2017 Black and Blue (live album) Knox Entertainment