Skip Martin, lead vocalist and trumpet player, has been performing with The Dazz Band for a combined total of over 25 years. Hits like Let It Whip, Joystick, Heartbeat, Party Right Here, Swoop and others stood the test of time, and remain in recurring rotation while millions of fans continue to seek out Dazz Band music online across the globe. With a total of 20 hits on Billboard's R&B and Pop charts The Dazz Band performed on popular television shows such as Soul Train, Solid Gold and American Bandstand. In 1982, The Dazz Band won a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Group or Duo for “Let It Whip” written and produced by Reggie Andrews who also produced The Dazz Band hits including: “Swoop”, “Joystick”, “Heartbeat”, “Hot Spot”, “Party Right Here”, and “Let It All Blow”, their biggest UK single.
As a songwriter, Bobby Harris published countless song titles in his career which can be found on the two Kinsman Dazz albums and ALL fourteen Dazz Band albums including: Invitation to Love, Let the Music Play, Keep It Live, On the One For Fun, Jukebox, Hot Spot, Wild and Free, Time Traveler, Funkology, Here We Go Again, Rock the Room, Under The Streetlights, Motown Legends, and The 20th Century Millennium. However after seeing Blood, Sweat and Tears perform he decided that fusing R&B, Pop and Jazz together could be done with musical integrity that included horn sections and riffs with a strong jazz connotation. Bobby played with many jazz greats including Roy Ayers, Freddie Hubbard and Richard “Groove” Holmes and wanted nothing more than to be a jazz musician. Bobby started playing saxophone with his father in jazz clubs in when he was 16 years old. Bobby Harris, leader and founder of the Grammy Award Winning Dazz Band, formerly “Kinsman Dazz” was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
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