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Roger Troutman (November 29, 1951 – April 25, 1999) [1] [2] was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Troutman frequently used the talk box , a device that is connected to an instrument (frequently a keyboard, but most commonly a guitar) to create different vocal effects.
On Sunday morning, April 25, 1999, Roger Troutman was fatally shot several times in the torso by his older brother, Larry, as he exited a recording studio in Dayton, Ohio; he was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, but died shortly after of his wounds. [22] Larry's body was found in a car a short distance away from the murder scene.
Zapp V (aka Zapp Vibe) is the fifth studio album by Ohio P-Funk band Zapp.. Zapp Vibe became the last full-length album to include frontman Roger Troutman and brother Larry Troutman before their untimely deaths in 1999.
Larry Troutman recommended Nicole Cottom, a friend of his daughter, to help sing background vocals. Roger recalled her being in the studio one day while he was recording his vocals: "There was a spot in the song where there was a hole and I asked her to do something. It was so good, there was no need to take it out." [4]
"Computer Love" is a song performed by American funk band Zapp, issued as the fourth and final single from their fourth studio album The New Zapp IV U.Featuring vocals by Shirley Murdock and Charlie Wilson and written by Murdock, Zapp Band leader Roger Troutman and his brother Larry Troutman, [1] the single peaked at number 8 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1986.
The Many Facets of Roger is the debut solo project by Dayton, Ohio-based funk musician Roger Troutman. The album went platinum based on the R&B successes of "So Ruff, So Tuff" and his cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It through the Grapevine". In the album, Troutman featured two instrumentals, "A Chunk of Sugar" and "Blue (A Tribute to the Blues ...
The New York Times reports that the Carleton Sheets infomercials that were ubiquitous a couple years ago are now off the air, as the real estate training mogul struggles with his tarnished ...
She was the granddaughter of musician Roger Troutman, founder of funk band Zapp. [3] Her father, Roger Lynch, the son of Roger Troutman, was also a musician. [ 4 ] She attended Como Park Senior High School [ 2 ] in Saint Paul, following an interest in basketball, [ 5 ] but then focused on music instead and transferred to Creative Arts Secondary ...