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This BLACK BOY Could Have Been Bigger Than MICHAEL JACKSON | But He Died Of DRUG OVERDOSE ???
Jul 16, 2020
Frankie Lymon was America’s first black teenage pop star but by 1968, aged a mere 25 years, he was found dead from a heroin overdose in the same apartment building where he’d grown up. Lymon’s fate is tragic in that he was ill equipped to manage the fame that found him.
Lymon and the Teenagers, five kids from Washington Heights, just north of Harlem sang doo-wop under the streetlight on the corner of 165th and Amsterdam were discovered by the Valentines’ lead singer Richie Barrett. Months later in 1956, their first record, “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” made it to the top of the national charts.
The Teenagers comprised three African-American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago.
At 13, Frankie Lymon became the hottest singer in America overnight with a world tour to boot. Lymon by that feat was a founding father of rock ’n’ roll. His voice and style influenced two generations of rock, soul and R&B giants.
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