Musician, songwriter and guitarist from London. Started guitar lessons in August 2024 🎸

www.RobParissi.com

BIOGRAPHY

Songwriter, singer, and guitarist Rob Parissi has had an amazing career in the music industry starting with his number one hit “Play That Funky Music White Boy”.

“Play That Funky Music” became a monster hit in 1976, peaking at number one on both the Billboard R&amp;B and pop charts, while both the single and Wild Cherry’s self-titled debut obtained platinum certification.Wild Cherry was rewarded with a number of accolades shortly thereafter, including being named Best Pop Group of the Year by Billboard, receiving an American Music Award for Top R&amp;B Single of the Year, and even earning a pair of Grammy nominations for Best New Vocal Group and Best R&amp;B Performance by a Group or Duo.

The group disbanded in 1979 a few years after the huge success of “Play That Funky Music White Boy” and Rob took this opportunity to co-produce the Gary U.S. Bonds Album “Dedication”.He went on to play guitar withBobby Caldwell, write withEllie Greenwich and do session work with Billy Squire’s Band which included Doug Lubahn, bass player from The Doors (who also wrote “Treat Me Right” for Pat Benatar), the late Bobby Chouinard, who also played drums for Alice Cooper, and Jeff Golub, who is now a well known Smooth Jazz Guitarist. 

Rob Parissi has re-emerged with a new sound in Smooth Jazz and Adult Contemporary music. As a composer, his range is vast and passion unmistakable in every track. Rob has his finger on the pulse of music and listeners will be swept up by Rob’s new invigorating sound.



interested in Studio & live projects. Track written, performed produced by Matt James:

Sm57
Demo 1
Demo 2
Sad song

Heaven on Earth are just two people ... Pauly and Joe. They met back in 1979. At the end of a European tour, Joe was asked by Pauly to produce her first album (Lady's Fire) for CBS Europe.  They became an item in 1982 when they married and then went on to get signed as a duo on Atlantic Records NYC debuting their first joint LP 'Dedication' from which the single 'On An Angel's Wing' was released. So popular was this record that no less then 8 re-mixes were made for the clubs. Angel's Wing can be hear on SoulBeats 4 along with Karyn White and George Benson. Today? They are still very active in the studio writing, recording and performing and now their son Paul Antonio Ortiz (a.k.a. Chimpspanner) is making some serious waves in the biz. A very unique family of musicians for the 21st century ;-)

I'm a semi-professional musician, playing Keyboards and Guitars along with being a vocalist. I've been in many bands and am currently just starting out in a Stax/Soul band but I'm also just getting into recording my favourite songs using PreSonus Studio One.

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