Frankie lymon biography video on george michael
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FRANKIE LYMON
Born Franklin Joseph Lymon, 30 September 1942, Washington Heights, New York City
Died 28 February 1968, New York City, New York
The short life of Frankie Lymon was a turbulent one.
Frankie lymon biography video on george michael
As the leader and soprano voice of the vocal group the Teenagers, he rose to world-wide fame at the age of thirteen. It was too much for him to handle. Five years later he was picked up from the gutter and at the age of 25 he was penniless and dead.
His influence has been huge, especially on Michael Jackson and other Motown artists like Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross.
Frankie Lymon grew up in a poor extended family in Harlem.
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Musically gifted, he sang gospel songs with his family and played bongos with his brother Howard in a mambo group. In 1954 he joined a group called the Premiers, then consisting of two Puerto Ricans (Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni) and two black youngsters (Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes), all born in 1940 or 1941.
Lymon became the youngest member.
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