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Franklin Joseph Lymon (January 16, 1942 [5] [6] – February 27, 1968 [7]) was an American rock and roll / rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City -based early rock and roll doo-wop group The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens.
Overnight, Frankie Lymon was the hottest singer in America, off on a world tour. He was 13 years old. That made him the first black teenage pop star, a gap-toothed, baby-faced, angel-voiced...
Sep 28, 2022 · Frankie Lymon was the leader of the first all-teen hit rock 'n' roll band The Teenagers but his short life spiralled into tragedy.
Jun 5, 2020 · Frankie Lymon was America’s first black teenage pop star but by 1968, aged a mere 25 years, he was found dead from a heroin overdose in the same apartment building where he’d grown...
Frankie Lymon, born as Franklin Joseph Lymon, was an American rock and roll singer and songwriter. He was best recognized as the lead vocalist of New York City-based rock & roll group, The Teenagers, which was composed of five young boys.
Frankie Lymon was born on September 30, 1942 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for American Graffiti (1973), October Sky (1999) and The Big Fix (1978). He was married to Emira Lymon, Zola Taylor and Elizabeth Waters.
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, American vocal group popular in the mid-1950s, prime exponents of the doo-wop vocal style. The members were Frankie Lymon (b. Sept. 30, 1942, New York, N.Y., U.S.—d. Feb. 28, 1968, New York), Herman Santiago (b. Feb. 18, 1941, New York), Jimmy Merchant (b. Feb. 10, 1940, New York), Joe Negroni (b. Sept. 9 ...
Dec 2, 2018 · Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers began in 1954 as a singing group founded at Edward W. Stitt Junior High School in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan (New York City, New York) by second tenor Jimmy Merchant and bass Sherman Garnes.
Franklin Joseph Lymon was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo-wop group The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens.
Led by Lymon’s sparkling, boyish voice, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers sang their way into pop superstardom. Their single “Why Do Fools Fall In Love?” was a defining moment in doo-wop history. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers’ youthful personae and pure vocals predicted Sixties prodigies like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder.
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