Darondo

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Darondo (actually William Daron Pulliam , born October 5, 1946 in Berkeley , † June 9, 2013 in San Francisco ) was an American soul and funk singer who was active in the music scene in San Francisco.

Life

Darondo got his first guitar at the age of eight; with school friends he founded the house band of the youth club Lucky 13 . After training as an electrician, he began his music career in the late 1960s. In 1970 he recorded a first single, How I Got Over for the independent label Ocampo , which was only played by the local radio station KSOL due to distribution problems. In the early 1970s he appeared in the opening act for Sly Stone and James Brown ; In 1973 he had a minor hit with Didn't I ; During the session, additional material was created for an LP, but it did not materialize. Another single ( Legs ) was released on the small label Af-Fa World . In the 1980s, the success waned; Darondo has appeared on a number of local cable television shows such as Darondo's Penthouse After Dark, Doze Comedy Videos, and the children's program Tapper the Rabbit . After living in the Fiji Islands at the end of the decade , he returned to Berkeley and began training as a physiotherapist. In 2005 his hit Didn't I was re-released by Gilles Peterson . Darondo's songs experienced a comeback, also through their use in films such as Saint John of Las Vegas (2009), Life on Mars , Night Catches Us (2010) and Jack in Love (2010) or the hit series Breaking Bad . The song also marks the end of the film "Person to Person", which won the DAAD short film award at the 65th Berlinale . They were partially re-released on the labels Omnivore Recordings and Ubiquity / Luv N Haight Records . Darondo died in 2013 at the age of 67 from complications from a heart attack .

Discographic notes

  • Let My People Go (Luv N Haight, 2006)
  • Listen to My Song: The Music City Sessions (Omnivore Recordings, ed. 2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in The Music's Over
  2. ↑ | Berlinale | Archive | Annual archives | 2014 | Award winners. In: www.berlinale.de. Retrieved March 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Darondo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulliam, William Daron (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soul musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2013
Place of death San Francisco