He began learning guitar at age 10 and through high school played guitar and piano in a R&B band covering James Brown, Curtis Mayfield and The Temptations. Lloyd's senior year he moved to Berkeley, California and put together a band called The Aztecs (Sly Stone joined them onstage one time).

The band won a talent contest where Gregory was spotted by the manager of The Ballads, who got Lloyd in the musician's union and made him the vocal group's musical director for several national tours playing on the same bills with Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight & The Pips and many others.

This early experience taught Gregory how to be a band leader and it led to tours with other R&B acts. At one point he paid the rent by playing in San Francisco strip clubs with former members of Santana. He also did a USO tour of Japan and toured with Mary McCrary (Edwin Hawkins Singers, New Generation), Maxine Howard, Shirley Jones (Diana Ross) and jazz-poet Oscar Brown, Jr. Over the years Gregory and his band have been joined on-stage by artists such as Bernard Purdie (James Brown, Aretha Franklin, George Benson) and Gaylord Birch (Graham Central Station, Pointer Sisters).

As a studio musician in Los Angeles, Gregory worked with producer Richard Perry and played sessions with top musicians such as Klaus Voorman (The Beatles), Arthur Adams (B.B. King, Quincy Jones), Harvey Mason (Herbie Hancock, George Benson) and Joe Sample (The Crusaders). Also as a session player Lloyd played on a Latin-jazz album by The Funky Aztecs.

Gregory has played on several albums by upcoming blues artists including Zakiya Hooker (John Lee's daughter), Sugarpie Desanto and Maxine Howard. In addition, Gregory studied under Warren Nunes and took Masters Class Seminars from Barney Kessel and Howard Roberts. On Gregory's first two albums he had musical guests that included Felton Pilate, Rodney Franklin, harmonica player Norton Buffalo (Steve Miller) and top session percussionist Ken Nash. When Lloyd tackled his acoustic Solo Guitar album, he found inspiration in the music of Bola Sete, Christopher Parkening and Juan Sereno. Other influences through the years have included Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, Mel Brown, Oscar Peterson, Lester Young, Chet Atkins and Stanley Clarke.

Gregory has studied and taught martial arts (Tae Kwon Do -- the Korean system of Karate) for more than 20 years. He has studied under master Byong Yu and attained a Second Degree Black Belt. "Through martial arts I learned to first start with the physical training, then the mental training and finally the spiritual training. This led me to an on-going period of spiritual exploration and meditation. At the same time I have studied certain aspects of music including harmonic structure, rhythms, arranging and especially the vibrations of sound, and how all of this is linked to the body and to the spirit."

Most of the arrangements on Free Fallin' were created in the studio as a result of the input and interplay of the musicians on each tune. " I only
give the band the basic structure of the piece, just enough of a roadmap to get started, because I want them to each be creative themselves. We take the seed, water it and allow it to grow. We nurture the music with love. Hopefully each listener feels what went into the music and can take some of that away with them".

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