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- ↑ GRAMMY Winners Search. Grammys.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-17.
- ↑ Julie Levin. "Guitarist Scores With Tribute to Henry Mancini", Miami Herald , April 3, 2005, pp. 65W.
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