Will Calhoun

Living Colour’s Can Calhoun was easily probably one of the most talented rock and roll drummers to emerge through the past due ’80s. Given birth to on July 22, 1964 and elevated within the Bronx, NY, Calhoun graduated from your Berklee College of Music in Boston through the early ’80s. Soon thereafter, he fulfilled guitarist Vernon Reid, who asked the drummer to become listed on a hard rock and roll clothing he was piecing together. With Corey Glover on vocals and fellow Berklee graduate Muzz Skillings on bass, Living Color was officially created in 1984. By 1988, the quartet was authorized to Epic, and released their debut recording, Vivid, exactly the same 12 months. The recording was a smash achievement (because of the anthemic hit solitary, “Cult of Character”), as Calhoun was quickly designated as you of rock’s best drummers – earning awards both in Contemporary Drummer Magazine’s Visitors Poll and Rolling Rock Magazine’s Critics Poll. Living Color continued to concern albums through the first ’90s (where period Skillings was changed with Doug Wimbish) – 1990’s Time’s Up, 1991’s Biscuits, and 1993’s Stain – before divorce in 1995. Calhoun in addition has become quite an in-demand program drummer, as he’s either documented with or performed alongside famous brands B.B. Ruler, Mick Jagger, Harry Belafonte, Pharaoh Sanders, Jack port Dejohnette, Marcus Miller, Dr. John, Carly Simon, Plant Alpert, Ron Solid wood, Wayne Shorter, Run-DMC, and General public Foe. Additionally, Calhoun offers played on single releases by the majority of his Living Color bandmates – Corey Glover’s Hymns and Doug Wimbish’s Trippy Records for Bass. Calhoun in addition has formed an organization with Wimbish, Jungle Funk (who released a self-titled launch in 1998), and it has issued several single produces – 1994’s Housework, 1997’s Drumwave, and 2000’s Live in the Blue Notice – the second option which was acknowledged towards the Will Calhoun Quintet. The past due ’90s noticed Calhoun synergy with Wimbish and Glover in a fresh music group, Headfake, which ultimately resulted in a full-blown Living Color reunion before 2001, as Reid authorized on aswell. Living Color toured throughout 2001, and anticipate issuing a studio room album sometime soon. Calhoun can be providing as drummer and maker for the next recording by rapper Mos Def, that he put together a stellar support band (dubbed Dark Jack Johnson), made up of Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Poor Brains guitarist Dr. Understand, among others.