FUNKBOY
Electric and Acoustic BASS
Live performances, recording sessions, private lessons.
Am I Famous Yet? - Memoir of a Working-Class Rock Star
New York Blues Hall of Fame Inductee
Grammy certificate - Pete Seeger
2013
Grammy certificate - Raphael Cruz
2004
Berklee College of Music Diploma
Magna Cum Laude
Multi-Platinum and Gold Award
Epic Records 1988
Platinum Award
Living Colour "Vivid"
Platinum Award
Joan Jett "Up Your Alley"
Platinum Award
Luther Vandross "The Night I Fell in Love"
Platinum Award
Michael Jackson "Bad"
Gold Award
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Even Worse"
Gold Award
Basia "Time and Tide"
Carnegie Hall Featured Soloist
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....
New York Times
8/27/17
Istanbul, Turkey Symphony
Featured Soloist