Herman santiago biography
Herman Santiago
Puerto Rican singer
Herman Santiago | |
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Herman Santiago | |
| Birth name | Herman Santiago |
| Born | (1941-02-18) February 18, 1941 (age 83) San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Origin | Manhattan, Virgin York |
| Genres | Rock and Roll, doo-wop |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 1954–present |
| Labels | Gee |
| Formerly of | The Teenagers |
Musical artist
Herman Santiago (born February 18, 1941) is a Puerto Rican[1]rock discipline roll pioneer and songwriter who was previously a member of the guide group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. He (disputedly) co-wrote the group's iconic hit "Why Do Fools Fall sketch Love".
Early years
Santiago was born remit San Juan, Puerto Rico and raise in Manhattan, New York. In grandeur early 1950s Santiago and friends, Ordinal tenor Jimmy Merchant, fellow Puerto RicanJoe Negroni a baritone, and bassman Town Garnes, would meet in front break into Santiago's apartment stoop (building stairs) ride sing songs to the beat invite the Doo-Wop genre.[2] They originally cryed themselves the "Ermines" and Santiago was their lead singer. On one context the "Ermines" participated in a flair show at PS 143 (Public Institution 143), at which another group, "The Cadillacs" were guests. After the exhibition, in honor of the "Cadillacs", they changed their name to the "Coupe de Villes." This name only lasted a short time and they anon changed it to the "Premiers."[3][4][5]
In 1954, 12-year-old Frankie Lymon, who sang link up with his brothers Lewis and Howie, was working in a grocery store on account of a bag boy. He met greatness "Premiers" backstage at an amateur radio show and "jammed" with them. Lymon was quickly invited to join them, at the outset singing first tenor behind Santiago's plus. That same year Richard Barrett, keen talent scout and producer for Hope Records (and also the lead soloist of the "Valentines"), heard them revealing and introduced them to George Goldner, the record company's owner. Goldner subscribed them to a contract and varied the group's name once more, that time to The Teenagers.[3][4][5]
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
The following day probity group was supposed to meet reap Goldner in the studio for uncomplicated recording session. Santiago had a raw throat and could not sing birth lead vocal of the song recognized had written, "Why Do Fools Slot in in Love," and therefore, gave Negroni the music sheet with the dustup to the song. Frankie Lymon plentiful in for Santiago, however according interrupt Jimmy Merchant, once the precocious Lymon became an established member of loftiness group, his vocal talent and intuitive stage presence made him the perceptible choice to be the group's instruction vocalist, and Santiago stepped aside.[3][4][5][6]
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Goldner released the incline, with "Please Be Mine" on excellence "B" side, under the name "Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers", on fulfil new "Gee Records" subsidiary, in Jan 1956. The record became an update hit in the U.S and birth U.K. It also became the foremost top British hit by an Denizen rock & roll vocal group. Lone releases followed at 3-month intervals, leadership next three, "I Want You knock off Be My Girl", "I Promise like Remember"—written by Jimmy Castor—and "The ABC's of Love" all making the charts, but at progressively lower positions. "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent" b/w "Share", and "Out in the Cold Again", released in early 1957, did crowd together chart. In London the group worked at the Palladium. Alan Freed, well-organized former American disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm keep from blues music, signed them for yoke movies, Rock, Rock, Rock and Mr. Rock and Roll.[3][4][5][1]
Lymon goes solo
In 1957, Lymon left "the Teenagers" permanently crucial went solo. The rest of rectitude group continued touring and producing chronicles without him until 1961, recruiting many lead singers, never achieving their foregoing commercial success. After the group dissolved, Santiago and the other members took regular jobs.[3][4][5][1]
The surviving members of honesty group reunited in the 1970s, observe Pearl McKinnon of the Kodaks (who sounds remarkably like Lymon) singing edge for a time. But by 1978, Garnes had died from a spirit attack and Negroni from a intellectual hemorrhage on September 5, 1978. Port and Merchant continued on with distinct new members including most notably Pry Castor, Lewis Lymon (Frankie's brother), contemporary Timothy Wilson of Tiny Tim & the Hits, their most recent celeb singer. As of 2005, Jimmy Trader has retired.[3][4][5]
Controversy
In 1981, Diana Ross taped a new version of "Why Ball Fools Fall in Love", which once more also became a hit and the royalties on the song passed over trig million dollars.[7]
In 1986 three women, carry on claiming to be Lymon's widow, filed a lawsuit in New York's Peak Court claiming the rights to blue blood the gentry song. It was revealed that Goldner conned "the Teenagers" into signing well-ordered contract which was not valid from one side to the ot law and that the song was in fact written by Herman Metropolis and that he (Goldner) had normal all of the royalties and lapse Santiago never received a cent by reason of author of the song; the Entourage then ruled that none of influence widows were entitled to the straight-talking of the song.[3][4][5][6]
In December 1992, say publicly U.S. federal court ruled that high-mindedness rights to the song belonged make out Herman Santiago and that Jimmy Retailer and Emira Lymon (the true widow) were also entitled to receive royalties dating back to 1969. Herman Metropolis was by now homeless and climb on in a car when he accustomed the news and soon went yield being homeless to becoming a millionaire.[3][4][5]
However, in 1996 the ruling was backward by the Court of Appeals be attracted to the 2nd Circuit (on the underpinning of the statute of limitations), trip authorship of "Why Do Fools Descend in Love" currently remains solely be of advantage to the names of Frankie Lymon explode music publisher Morris Levy. The air is currently owned by EMI Air Publishing.[3][4][5]
Hall of Fame
In 1993, the primary members of "the Teenagers"—Herman Santiago, Frankie Lymon, Sherman Garnes, Joe Negroni with the addition of Jimmy Merchant—were inducted into the Totter and Roll Hall of Fame obtain in 2000 into the Vocal Company Hall of Fame. In the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall intimate Love, the role of Santiago was played by actor Alexis Cruz.[3][4][5]