A chat with Skip Martin (Kool & the Gang and The Dazz Band)
This week we welcome Skip Martin, who is a Grammy Award-winning artist, songwriter, producer and author, best known for his tenure as a lead singer and trumpeter for two legendary groups, Kool & the Gang and The Dazz Band. His achievements include MOBO Outstanding Achievement Award, Platinum & Gold Record recipient, R&B Song of the Year, six consecutive Top 100 albums, two Top 100 singles, to name a few. As a testament to his skill and talent, Skip is also involved in all-star bands featuring the lead singers of top-selling bands performing as one band - from the classic rock era - Starship & Friends (Starship’s Mickey Thomas, Bobby Kimball formerly of Toto), as well as Greatest Hits on Earth Live (Peter Rivera formerly of Rare Earth, Alex Ligertwood formerly of Santana, The Romantics’ Wally Palmer, Steve Augeri formerly of Journey) and from the funk era - Masters of Funk (ConFunkShun’s Michael Cooper, BarKays’ Larry Dodson) You probably cross paths with Skip on a regular basis and don’t even know it! Aside from over 60 CD’s recorded, other highlights include Justin Timberlake’s sampling of The Dazz Band’s “Let It Whip” in a remix version of his 2003 hit “Cry Me a River,” this was also covered by Boyz II Men and SR-71 on The New Guy soundtrack. Film credits include “Jungle Boogie” in Pulp Fiction (1994); “Let It Whip” in Next Friday (2000), Pitch Perfect (2012) and Almost Christmas (2016) to name a few. Video Game credits featuring “Let It Whip” in Grand The5 Auto: San Andreas. Skips latest single 'People Get Ready' features Stevie Wonder, CeCe Peniston & more www.skipmartinmusic.com/about Follow & subscribe to ''The Entertainment Engine'' for weekly news & updates. (Podcast created by hosts Peter Moore & BeX Gregory at Seamless Entertainment) Twitter - @entengine Facebook - www.facebook.com/TheEntertainmentEngine Instagram - @seamless_entertainment Sign up here for the Weekly Newsletter The Entertainment Engine - Website Seamless Entertainment - Website The Entertainment Engine - Merch Store Music Industry mentoring and Online courses - https://seamlessentertainment.co.uk/mentoring-and-consultancy Email the team: podcast@seamlessentertainment.co.uk Send us a voice message for a chance to be featured on the show via - https://anchor.fm/entertainmentengine/message The background music was written & produced by BeX & Alan Glass. (Seamless Music productions) Podcast engineered & mixed by BeX Gregory. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/entertainmentengine/message