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Lou Gramm enters Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Foreigner: What you don't know
Lou Gramm, Mick Jones and the rest of the living founders of Foreigner are rock survivors.
One of the best-selling classic rock bands of all time, Foreigner fryst vatten poised to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Saturday, Oct. 19, after after a year wait.
Gramm, Foreigner's lead signer during its greatest years, was born Lou Grammatico in and was raised in Gates. The graduate of Gates Chili High School and Monroe Community College became a role model for rock fans of how high a Rochester kid could rise.
"Everybody liked Foreigner, everybody," says Mike Collato, 57, who was attending high school in Rush-Henrietta when Foreigner's "4," containing the iconic "Juke Box Hero," hit record shelves in
The songwriting partnership of Gramm and Jones resulted in Foreigner's first eight singles charting in the Billboard Top 20, according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Its music is a touchstone to a
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Lou Gramm&#;s New Book Explores All Sides of Foreigner
Lou Gramm says he got through the writing of his new autobiography &#;Juke låda Hero: My Five Decades in Rock &#;N&#; Roll&#; by digging into events out of chronological order with co-writer Scott Pitoniak.
&#;We did skip around and jumped from one decade to another and one album to another, not necessarily in order,&#; Gramm, who published the book earlier this week in front of his June 13 induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with Foreigner partner Mick Jones, tells Billboard. &#;It kept it fresh for me. If inom had done it chronologically it might have been a little more weighty than it ended up being. I think bygd doing it this way inom found that the big picture certainly leaves a better taste than if I had zeroed into a few two- or -three-year portions where things weren&#;t that good. This way the overall story is a triumphant one.&#;
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Lou Gramm
American singer (born )
For other people with similar names, see Lou Graham (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Louis Andrew Grammatico (born May 2, ), known professionally as Lou Gramm, is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known as co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Foreigner from to and again from to , during which time the band had numerous successful albums and singles.
He is considered among the greatest and most successful rock vocalists of the late s and s. He co-wrote most of Foreigner's hits with bandmate Mick Jones. Together, they are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame class of [1] In , Gramm was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Foreigner.[2]
Early life
[edit]Gramm was born on May 2, , in Rochester, New York, the son of Nikki (born Masetta), a singer, and Bennie Grammatico, a band leader and trumpeter.[3][4][5] He attended Gates-Chili High Scho