Artist: Lou Gramm Genre(s):
Pop
Rock
Other
Discography:
Mystic Foreigner Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Long Hard Look Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Ready Or Not Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Titohughes Year:
Tracks: 13
First uphill to prominence as the frontman for platinum-selling hard rock jazz band Foreigner, Lou Gramm later on mounted a successful solo career, cracking the Top Five in 1987 with "Midnight Blue." Born in Rochester, NY on May 2, 1950, Gramm first surfaced as the drummer with the band Black Sheep, presumptuous jumper cable vocal duties prior to recording the group's self-titled 1975 Capitol debut; although neither the album nor its follow-up Encouraging Words earned much mainstream notice, they did get the attention of journeyman guitarist Mick Jones, best known for his least sandpiper with a latter-day embodiment of Spooky Tooth. Jones before long tapped Gramm to front his newfangled group Foreigner, and together they began piece of writing songs, co-authoring the bang up "Cold as Ice" from their best-selling 1977 eponymous debut LP. Gramm's powerfully classifiable vocals were unavoidable in the years to follow as Foreigner reeled off an impressive series of bolt down radio hits including "Hot Blooded," "Double Vision," "Pressing," and "Wait for a Girl Like You," culminating in 1984's chart-topping power ballad "I Want to Know What Love Is." With Foreigner on hiatus, Gramm made his solo debut in 1987 with
Ready or Not, marking a major gain with "Midnight Blue"; that same class, Foreigner issued Inside Information, but with the success of the 1989 solo feat
Longsighted Hard Look and its attendant individual "Just Between You and Me," the singer left the chemical group to form his own ring, Shadow King, which released its self-titled debut on Virgin in 1991. Shadow King proved transitory, however, and in 1994 Gramm and Jones revived Foreigner for Mr. Moonlight. In the give of 1997, on the even of the band's planned Japanese go, Gramm was diagnosed with a benign head neoplasm; oR preceded a year of rehabilitation and radiation treatment, although the vocaliser made a good recovery and resumed touring in 1999.
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