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Before Desmond Kid was the superstar producer/songwriter who caused heavyweights like Bon Jovi, Cher, and Alice Cooper, he was the first choice of Desmond Kid & Rouge — a fascinating but little-known pop-rock vocal quartet that recorded for Capitol in the past due ’70s. Kid was the just male in …

Songwriter Desmond Kid was raised in Miami Seaside, FL, where his Cuban songwriter mom taught her boy to try out the piano young. Affected by Otis Redding and Laura Nyro, he was influenced to start out a music group in senior high school known as Night Kid with vocalist and …