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Scaggs (other)
Scaggs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Austin Scaggs, American music critic *Boz Scaggs (born 1944), American singer, songwriter and guitarist *Noelle Scaggs Noelle Scaggs (born October 8, 1979) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, known as the co-lead singer of the pop group Fitz and the Tantrums. Scaggs has also had numerous collaborations with the Black Eyed Peas, Dilate ... (born 1979), American singer-songwriter See also * Skaggs (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Scaggs
Austin Scaggs is an American music critic and a contributing editor for ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. He's also written for ''Men's Journal''. His father is musician Boz Scaggs. Early life Scaggs was born to Boz and Carmella Scaggs. Jann Wenner (the eventual editor and publisher of ''Rolling Stone'') served as their witness at their wedding. Austin was born in San Francisco and grew up, along with his brother Oscar, in Presidio Heights. He attended the Town School for Boys. His parents divorced in 1980, and after a three-and-a-half-year battle, they were awarded joint custody. Carmella would bring her sons to Tower Records on Tuesdays to peruse the newly-released music. Career Scaggs read ''Rolling Stone'' as a child, but never planned to go into music journalism.(September 12, 2007"The Smoking Section Answers Your Questions"RollingStone.com Retrieved November 29, 2007 At 19, he moved from San Francisco to New York City to play guitar in a band, and began interning at ''Rollin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boz Scaggs
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller (musician), Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Band from 1967 to 1968. Scaggs began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until his 1976 album, ''Silk Degrees'', peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and produced the hit singles "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown (Boz Scaggs song), Lowdown". Scaggs produced two more RIAA certification, platinum-certified albums in ''Down Two Then Left'' and ''Middle Man (album), Middle Man'', the latter of which produced the top-40 singles "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo (Boz Scaggs song), Jojo". After a hiatus for most of the 1980s, he returned to recording and touring in 1988, releasing ''Other Roads'' and later joining the New York Rock and Soul Revue. Scaggs opened the nightclub Slim's, a popular music venue in San Francisco (it closed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noelle Scaggs
Noelle Scaggs (born October 8, 1979) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, known as the co-lead singer of the pop group Fitz and the Tantrums. Scaggs has also had numerous collaborations with the Black Eyed Peas, Dilated Peoples, Quantic, Mayer Hawthorne, and Damian Marley. In 2008 she became a co-lead singer of the indie pop and neo-soul band Fitz and the Tantrums, and is featured on their 2010 album '' Pickin' Up the Pieces'', which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. She has toured extensively with the band and performed on shows such as ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Conan, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ellen, GMA, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'', and ''The Late Late Show with James Corden.'' She has been critically acclaimed for her "powerhouse vocals" and charismatic on-stage presence. Early life Scaggs was born on October 8, 1979, in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a DJ and Scaggs was exposed to his vinyl collection at a youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
