Decades before Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin made Puerto Rican music mainstream in American culture, there was an all-Puerto Rican doo-wop group that broke into the top music charts. And ...
Every member of the five-man Doo Wop Project is much too young to have been part of the first-generation doo-woppers. “Every guy has his own journey to this music,” founding member Dominic Nolfi said ...
It may be overly ambitious to bring four singers together and expect them to match the smooth and close harmonies of the doo-wop groups of the 1950s in just three weeks of rehearsals. The four male ...
Doo-wop group Scout Ford & the Blue Moons find the ability to sing outside, without a band or any equipment, is helping them spark joy and nostalgia for their fellow New Yorkers. When the group sings ...
Doo Wop music, with its smooth harmonies, heartfelt lyrics and nostalgic vibe, continues to captivate audiences decades after its golden era. With roots in the African American vocal traditions of the ...
The tight harmonies of the doo-wop sound have been part of popular culture since young, would-be stars started singing on street corners in their neighborhoods and creating a sound that captivated the ...
Eugene Pitt, the lead singer of the Jive Five, a doo-wop group that reached the Top 10 in 1961 with “My True Story” and endured long past doo-wop’s heyday by mingling their sound with ascendant genres ...
Larry Chance, who became a legend of doo-wop with his Bronx group The Earls—also known as Larry Chance and the Earls—has passed away. He was 82. Chance died on Sept. 6 in a hospital in Orlando, ...
Five legendary doo wop bands will take the stage at F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. for Joe Nardone Presents: “Oh What a Night” of Doo Wop Legends. The show, ...