Terry Kath was the larger-than-life lead guitarist, vocalist and founding member of Illinois jazz-rockers Chicago. Kath played on the group's early hits 25 or 6 to 4 and Saturday In The Park and blazed a trail on albums such as 1969's Chicago Transit Authority and 71's Chicago III.

Such was Terry Kath's musical prowess that Jimi Hendrix declared him "better than me." However, tragedy struck in January 1978, when he shot himself with a pistol.

Kath's daughter, Michelle Sinclair, now a leading DJ in the Los Angeles music scene, was two years old when he passed away, and is currently directing an independent documentary film about her father, entitled Searching For Terry. "I wanted to give my father the recognition he deserves as a musician, but also to discover who he was a person, as I never got to know him," Michelle tells Classic Rock. - more on this story

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