Music of Florida
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The music of Florida has diverse influences, with roots in rock, jazz, blues, country, and Latin music. Cities such as Tampa, Gainesville, Orlando, and Miami developed influential rock, punk, and metal scenes in the 1970s–2000s. Miami in particular has a rich tradition of Latin and Caribbean music, which has influenced mainstream pop and hip hop in the 2000s and 2010s.
Indigenous music
Blues
Jazz
Trumpeter Pete Minger, a South Carolina native, moved to Florida where he played with drummer William Peeples among others, and studied music at the University of Miami after working with Count Basie in the 1970s. Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer Arturo Sandoval has been active in Miami since 1990.
Dean Dewberry (1926–2006), a Jazz (American Music) Hall of Fame[clarification needed] concert pianist, was born and raised in St. Petersburg. He played in local night clubs with his wife, Penny Parker Dewberry, as well as with jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Dave Brubeck, Eph Resnick, and Wild Bill Davidson.[3] Later, after becoming Christians, both he and his wife created "Jazz For Jesus" and spent the rest of their working years uplifting inmates throughout the southeast; they did normal and home co-ministry with their friends Horace and Marilyn Ellsworth (ministers of "Looking Unto Jesus Ministries") throughout Florida and southern Georgia.
Country
Florida is the home of several notable country musicians and musical acts.
Johnny Tillotson ("Poetry in Motion") is from Jacksonville.
Country singer Mel Tillis was born in Darby, a small rural community in Pasco County. His daughter Pam Tillis, also a country music star, was born in nearby Plant City.
Slim Whitman was born in Tampa and once played minor-league baseball for the Plant City Berries.
Kent Lavoie, better known by his stage name,
Jake Owen had a No. 4 album on the Billboard 200 in 2016.
Rock
Florida has been a center for rock music and its numerous subgenres since the 1960s. Cities such as Tampa, Jacksonville, and Gainesville in particular developed active punk rock and metal scenes starting in the 1970s and 1980s.
Florida musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant is buried in a suburb of Jacksonville; his widow founded Freebird Live).
Rock and alternative rock
In the 1960s, Florida rock-and-roll and garage bands included The Outlaws, The Tropics, and The Tempests, all of which originated in Tampa; The Royal Guardsmen ("Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" ranked #2 on the Hot 100 in 1966) from Ocala; and the Classics IV ("Traces" ranked #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969) from Jacksonville. Soft rock singer Bertie Higgins ("Key Largo", 1981) was inducted into the Florida Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
Jim Morrison of The Doors was born in Melbourne, spent part of his childhood in Clearwater, and attended Florida State University for a few years.
Guitarist Tom Petty was born in and grew up in Gainesville. Most of the members of the three bands he recorded with—The Epics, The Heartbreakers, and Mudcrutch—were also from Florida, mainly from in and around Gainesville and northern Florida. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had ten #1 songs on the Mainstream Rock chart. Bands of the mid-to late-1990s with strong links to Florida include Tabitha's Secret (later named Matchbox Twenty) from Orlando, the rock band Creed (who had four #1 songs on the Mainstream Rock chart) from Tallahassee, and Sister Hazel from Gainesville. Alter Bridge (Creed minus lead vocalist Scott Stapp) from Orlando had a No. 5 album on the Billboard 200 with One Day Remains (2004).
Chris Carrabba and his band, Dashboard Confessional, is usually associated with the new wave of popular alternative music. Originating from Boca Raton, the band had two No. 2 albums on the Billboard 200 in 2003 and 2006. Chris Carrabba graduated from Florida Atlantic University in Boca. His former band, Further Seems Forever, is also a popular indie rock band from Pompano Beach.
The band
The band The Freddy Mitchell Euphoria formed in Fort Lauderdale in the mid-1980s. Their albums were Above and Below (1984), Fallen Moons (1998), and Animator (2005).
The bands
Christian alternative band Tenth Avenue North is based out of West Palm Beach. Christian rock band Casting Crowns (Come to the Well, 2011) formed in Daytona Beach. Jani Lane, the original lead vocalist for Warrant, grew up in Winter Park; he later opened a club in downtown Orlando named Jani Lane's Sunset Strip. Todd LaTorre, the current vocalist for Queensrÿche, grew up in Tampa Bay; he also was the frontman of Crimson Glory.
The American emo band Pool Kids formed in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2017. Their debut album was Music to Practice Safe Sex To (2018).
Rock recording industry
In the 1960s, Tampa was active in the music recording industry. Mercy recorded a Jack Sigler, Jr. original entitled "Love (Can Make You Happy)" at the old Charles Fuller Studio on MacDill Avenue in Tampa. The Royal Guardsmen recorded "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" at this same studio. Many bands used Charles Fuller Studios for their 45 records. The Tropics, a Tampa/St. Petersburg-based band, recorded and released "I Want More" on the Knight label and "Time" on Columbia Records. The Tempests, a St. Petersburg-based band, recorded and released "I Want You Only" and "I Want You To Know" on the Fuller label.
Southern rock
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Jacksonville saw an active music recording scene with Southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers Band, 38 Special, Outlaws, Blackfoot, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Bellamy Brothers also recorded their style of country music in the mid to late 1970s.
Punk rock
Active punk rock scenes flourished in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area in the late 1970s, including bands such as The Straight Jackets, The Shades, the Jackers, Just Boys, The Art Holes, The Stick Figures, A New Personality, and the Veal Rifles.
Hardcore punk gained a widespread following, originating from cities like Gainesville, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Tampa. One of the first bands in this style is believed to be Roach Motel of Gainesville; however, The Eat, from Hialeah, formed around 1978–79. Miami also was home to one of the first American punk bands to release an indie single: "Silver Screen" (1978) by Critical Mass, which is still in demand by collectors today. Rat Cafeteria, U-Boats (Tampa); Sector 4, Hated Youth, and Paisley Death Camp (all from Tallahassee); No Fraud (Venice); F (Fort Lauderdale); Morbid Opera (Miami); and Crucial Truth (Pompano Beach) also gained an audience and some had songs compiled on the album We Can't Help It If We're From Florida.
In the 1980s, hardcore bands from Orlando included Dissent, Damage, Zyklon-B, The Bully Boys, Florida's Unwanted Children, Sewer Side Rouges, Declared Ungovernable, Contradiction, The Damn Maniacs, and Genitorturers. Mid-1980s-era band Black Label featured John Reece (future bassist for Rose Shadows) as well as Rusty Penrose (future guitarist for Bully Boys) and John Stalzer on drums. Black Label was the second band to ever play at the Orlando concert venue Electric Avenue. The band's inaugural show brought in 981 people, a feat that would never again be accomplished by any local band at that venue.[citation needed] Black Label released one single, "Rootbeer For Everyone", a song that was in heavy rotation on Rollins College radio station WPRK, which was hosted at the time by future Genitorturers' front woman Jennifer Zimmerman.
Gainesville and Jacksonville had very active punk scenes in the 1990s and 2000s.
Other hardcore, post-hardcore, and metalcore bands from Florida include:
Indie rock
Indie rock bands Mortimer Nova, Surfer Blood, Iron & Wine, Copeland, The Drums, and The Generators are from Florida. The post-rock band Windsor for the Derby was formed in Tampa, and Fake Problems originated in Naples. Indie artist Hanukah Harry is famous for his song "Dreidel" with its iconic six-part harmony.
Metal
Florida was the epicenter of the emerging death metal genre in the late 1980s, particularly in the Tampa Bay area. Shaped by the producers Scott Burns and Jim and Tim Morris of Morrisound Recording, the emergent Florida death metal scene produced artists such as Death, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Obituary, Atheist, Hate Eternal, Monstrosity, Assück, Nocturnus, Nasty Savage, and Acheron. The recording and commercial opportunities of the scene induced non-Floridian bands such as Cannibal Corpse and Malevolent Creation to relocate to Tampa. Among the records and albums produced at Morrisound were Deicide's debut album Deicide (1990), Morbid Angel's debut album Altars of Madness (1989), and Death's album Leprosy (1988). Tampa is also the birthplace of symphonic power metal band Kamelot and power metal band Iced Earth.
Fort Lauderdale has produced a few metal bands as well, such as Marilyn Manson, Monstrosity, Kult ov Azazel, and nu metal band Nonpoint. Progressive death metal bands Cynic, Hibernus Mortis, and I Set My Friends on Fire come from Miami. Poison the Well—the band generally agreed to have created the melodic metalcore subgenre, a type of metalcore inspired by melodic death metal—is also from Miami. Wage War and We Are Defiance are metalcore bands based out of Ocala.
Orlando is the home of the bands Death, Skrape, and Trivium. Savatage is from the city of Tarpon Springs; singer Jon Oliva went on to create the Trans-Siberian Orchestra from Tampa. Limp Bizkit is from Jacksonville.
R&B, soul, funk, disco
Family
Pop
Florida pop musicians with at least one No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit included
In addition, Florida musicians with at least one No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 included Marilyn Manson (2), Limp Bizkit (2), and Backstreet Boys (3) in the 1990s; Jimmy Buffett, R&B/hip hop group Pretty Ricky, and rapper Rick Ross (5) in the 2000s; and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, R&B/pop singer Ariana Grande (5), bro-country duo Florida Georgia Line, rapper DJ Khaled (4), and rapper Kodak Black in the 2010s.
Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and O-Town were all formed in Orlando and managed by Lou Pearlman. Additional musicians from Orlando include singer and actress Mandy Moore, and country singer John Anderson ("Seminole Wind", 1992). Aaron Carter was from Tampa, and had a No. 4 album on Billboard 200 in 2000.
Additional musicians from Florida include electro-pop singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Meresha; country pop singer Cassadee Pope from West Palm Beach; and neotraditional country singer Easton Corbin from the Gainesville area. Pop rapper LunchMoney Lewis, rapper Kent Jones, female trap rapper Bhad Bhabie, and rap rocker Kevin Rudolf all come from Miami. EDM and trap DJ Diplo (also in Major Lazer and Jack Ü) is also from Miami.
Early 2000s girl group P.Y.T. and dance-pop singer Willa Ford came from the Tampa area. The girl group Fifth Harmony (with Camila Cabello, who later went solo) is from Miami, and had a No. 4 album on the Billboard 200 with 7/27 (2016).
Latin music
There are many
In 2017, the music video for "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee reached over a billion views on YouTube in under 3 months. As of December 2020, the music video was the second most viewed YouTube video of all time. With 3.3 million certified sales plus track-equivalent streams, "Despacito" became one of the best-selling Latin singles in the United States.[7] Reggaeton artist Bad Bunny's album X 100pre (2018) was ranked number 447 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2020.[8]
Miami bass
Miami bass is a booming, bass-heavy
The Miami bass groups
Rap and hip hop
Nappy Boy Entertainment is a record label founded by T-Pain in Tallahassee. Valholla Entertainment is a Miami-based label and management company.
Subsequent Florida rappers
Additional Floridian rappers include Trick Daddy, Kodak Black, Tom G ("City Boy Wit It" [sic]), Celph Titled, Tampa Tony ("No Good"), Denzel Curry, Rick Ross, Ace Hood, Plies ("Hypnotized"), Trina, Rod Wave, Cool & Dre, Flo Rida, Jacki-O, Stack$, stic.man, Dead Prez, Pitbull, Ghostemane, YNW Melly, and M-1.
Florida breaks
Florida breaks is a genre of breakbeat music originating in the 1990s in the state of Florida. It is particularly popular in the Tampa and Orlando areas.
Dance music
Floridian dance musicians include
In 1985, the Winter Music Conference, an annual week-long dance music festival, started in Miami. It coincides with Ultra Music Festival.
Music from the 1990s included Murk (aka Funky Green Dogs), Planet Soul, No Mercy, and DJ Robbie Rivera.
See also
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