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Play That Funky Music, live 2008Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Robert "Rob" Parissi is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, perhaps best known as frontman for the American funk group Wild Cherry, best known for their 1976 Parissi-penned chart-topper "Play That Funky Music". He was born in 1950 and raised in the steel mill town of Mingo Junction, Ohio. He graduated from Mingo High School in 1968. Rob formed the band Wild Cherry in 1970 in Steubenville, Ohio, one mile north of Mingo Junction along the Ohio River. The band played the Ohio Valley region, Wheeling, West Virginia and the rest of the Northern West Virginia panhandle, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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- Play That Funky Music live 2008Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- Doodle up rob parissi
- With Wild Cherry
- Solo
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After Wild Cherry disbanded in 1979 without another major hit, Parissi became a producer and dedicated himself to adult contemporary music. He writes and records in the Smooth Jazz genre and has collaborated with Steve Oliver and Will Donato.
Doodle up rob parissi
With Wild Cherry
Solo
