Decades before Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin made Puerto Rican music mainstream in American culture, there was an all-Puerto Rican doo-wop group that broke into the top music charts. And ...
When the Sha La Das released their 2018 debut, Love in the Wind, it was a bit like the discovery of an animal long thought ...
A music style that emerged in the mid-20 th century is now taking center stage in Midland. The Doo Wop Project (DWP) will demonstrate the evolution of the Doo Wop music genre from its roots in the ...
The group The Doo Wop Project has contributed a new word to the English language: “Doowopified.” It was created by the New York City-based band, specifically its bass vocalist Dwayne Cooper, defined ...
On Saturday, The Doo Wop Project, one of America’s premier vocal groups, will take the stage at the American Music Theatre in Lancaster. Comprised of Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway stars, the ...
With a brand-new Christmas album just hitting the shelves, the Doo Wop Project is playing it cool. With members comprised of Broadway shows like “Jersey Boys” and “Motown: The Musical,” the Doo Wop ...
It may be overly ambitious to bring four singers together and expect them to match the smooth and close harmonies of the doo-wop groups of the 1950s in just three weeks of rehearsals. The four male ...
*This, in part, is the story of Jay and the Americans, but it is much more than that. It is about the history of street music. Music is one of the only methods by which we mere mortals can truly time ...
Chris Ruggiero was 12 when he first heard a doo-wop song as his grandfather drove him to a Little League baseball game. Less than a decade later, doo-wop and the timeless songs of the 1950s, ’60s and ...
When you think of doo-wop music, names like The Shirelles, Five Keys, the Duprees, Dion and the Belmonts and the Bel-Airs come to mind. But Jason Mraz? Adele? Michael Jackson? Maroon 5? If you’re the ...
The doo-wop group "The Cadillacs" pose for a portrait with their lead singer Earl Carroll (top) in circa 1954 in New York. They recorded a song called "Zoom." (James Kriegsmann/Michael Ochs ...