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FUNKBOY
Electric and Acoustic BASS
Live performances, recording sessions, private lessons.
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Am I Famous Yet? - Memoir of a Working-Class Rock Star
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New York Blues Hall of Fame Inductee
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Grammy certificate - Pete Seeger
2013
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Grammy certificate - Raphael Cruz
2004
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Berklee College of Music Diploma
Magna Cum Laude
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Multi-Platinum and Gold Award
Epic Records 1988
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Platinum Award
Living Colour "Vivid"
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Platinum Award
Joan Jett "Up Your Alley"
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Platinum Award
Luther Vandross "The Night I Fell in Love"
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Platinum Award
Michael Jackson "Bad"
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Gold Award
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Even Worse"
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Gold Award
Basia "Time and Tide"
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Carnegie Hall Featured Soloist
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Stanley Clarke bass lesson
Almost 30 years ago I got to take a couple of bass lessons from my mentor and friend, Stanley Clarke. This piece of manuscript paper written in the master's hand was one of my homework assignments. I managed to hold onto it all of these years. When I bought my first house this year with the money I made playing bass I asked Stanley to sign it, hence the "I told you so!" Today I framed it and hung it in the house. Thanks, Stanley! You were right....
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New York Times
8/27/17
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Istanbul, Turkey Symphony
Featured Soloist
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