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Manuel Joseph "Man" Parrish (born May 6, 1958) is an American composer, songwriter, vocalist and producer. He, along with artists such as Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, John Robie, Jellybean Benitez, Lotti Golden, Richard Scher and Aldo Marin, helped create and define electro in the early 1980s.
A native New Yorker of Italian descent, Parrish was a member of the extended family that converged nightly at Studio 54. His nickname, Man, first appeared in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and his early live shows at Bronx hip-hop clubs were spectacles of lights, glitter, and pyrotechnics, which drew as much from the Warhol mystique as the Cold Crush Brothers.
His premier release was "Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)" issued in 1982, which was featured in the film Shaun of the Dead, the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and was sampled in Sway & King Tech's 1991 song "Follow 4 Now" from their second album "Concrete Jungle." He eventually signed with Elektra Records but was dropped from the label in 1984 when it decided not to release the album he had recorded for it.
As of the 2010s, Parrish is on Pink Biscuit Records and was scheduled to release a record via Southern Fried Records, the label owned by Fatboy Slim.
Selected albums
Best Of Man Parrish, CD (Hot Records)
DreamTime, CD (Hot Records)
If You Think You’re Nasty, CD (Man Made Records / Hot Associated)
Man Parrish 2nd Album, CD (Man Made Records/Hot Associated)
Man Parrish, LP (Importe/12 Records) (Originally recorded for Elektra Records)
The Best of Man Parrish, CD (Ram's Horn Records)
Selected singles
Boogie Down (Bronx), 12" (Rams Horn Records)
Boogie Down, 12" (Polydor LTD. (UK))
Brown Sugar 12" (Select Records)
Heatstroke / Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop), 12" (Rams Horn Records)
Hey There Home Boys 12" (Sugarscoop Records)
Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop) / Boogie Down (Bronx), 12" (Importe/12 Records, re-issued on Old Gold Records Ltd.)
I Need A Man, 12" (ZYX)
Just Want To Be 12" (Sugarscoop Records)
Male Stripper/All Men Are Beasts, 12" (Recca Records)
Man Made, 12" (Importe/12 Records)
Motor Bike 12" (Throb Records)
One Look Was Enough 12" (Dice Records)
Six Simple Synthesizers, 12" (Rams Horn Records)
Smooth 12" with Freddy Fresh (Obsessive)
Who Me 12" (Select Records)
Strange Love 12" The Holy Trinity with Steven Jones, Donna Destri (Etrangers Musique)
Appearances and compilations
Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop) on DJ-Kicks, CD (Studio !K7)
Boogie Down Bronx on MASK 500, 12" (SKAM)
Manmade on Mixed Up In The Hague Vol. 1, CD (Panama)