Howard Kaylan

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Howard Kaylan (born June 22, 1947 in New York as Howard Kaplan) is an American rock musician who is best known as a singer. In the mid-1960s, together with Mark Volman , he founded the rock group The Turtles , which at that time had several top ten hits ( Happy Together ) and was world famous.

Kaylan grew up in the city of Westchester near Los Angeles. At school he met Mark Volman, who was the same age. There he was particularly interested in choir singing and playing the clarinet. At the age of 16 he won the Bank of America Fine Arts Award - a prize for young talent. After school, he gave only a brief interlude as a student at the University of California. His interest was rather less in academic matters, but he was all the more concerned with the university's own radio station. Kaylan's student career ended the moment his, as he calls it, “weekend combo” got a recording deal.

Mark Volman, his buddy from high school days together, joined this band "The Nightriders" in 1965. The night riders became the group "The Crossfires", which in turn became aware of a well-known disc jockey. He took over the management of the band, which renamed itself again and enjoyed world fame over a period of five years as The Turtles (see there).

When the Turtles disbanded in 1970, Howard Kaylan and his spirit brother, Mark Volman, caused a furore internationally for another decade, this time as Flo & Eddie (see there).

Kaylan has worked with over 100 well-known rock and pop greats since 1970, sometimes as a producer, sometimes as a background singer. In the film Get Crazy he worked in the role of Captain Cloud as an actor. Sometime in the mid-1990s, Howard Kaylan turned more and more to writing. He was particularly taken with the genres of dark fantasy and science fiction. His short stories Phantoms of the Night and Forbidden Acts made it onto the bestseller lists in America.

In 2001 Kaylan wrote the screenplay for a short film which, after a few years of work, ultimately became the full-length feature film My Dinner with Jimi . Howard Kaylan now lives sometimes in Seattle, sometimes in Hollywood, where he is, as he himself says, "worried" about the release of his film.

Discography (selection)

solo

  • Howard Kaylan: Dust Bunnies - 2005 (his first solo album)

Flo & Eddie

  • Flo & Eddie : Illegal, Immoral and Fattening - 1974
  • Flo & Eddie: Rock Steady - 1981

As a background singer

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personal data
SURNAME Kaylan, Howard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaplain, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock musician and singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , USA