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TOMMY FUNDERBURK "Anything For you"European Import : Frontiers Records - FRCD218 STOCK STATUS: IN STOCK - ships in 1 day |
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| Tommy Funderburk has been one of the most hired background singers in the history of rock! He had recording sessions with artists such as Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Boston, Yes, Steve Lukather, Richard Marx, Rick Springfield, Starship, REO Speedwagon, Coverdale/Page, Jon Anderson and many others... He was born in North Carolina and grew up in the southern parts of the United States, listening to the Beatles, r&b and soul music. Tommy played in a band at college while planning to be a high school history teacher. The band opened for Andrae Crouch. Crouch and his drummer encouraged Tommy to go to L.A., where he met David Foster and Jay Graydon who were looking for a singer for their project Airplay. Funderburk joined Airplay as their lead singer. The rest is history... Tommy's career as a session singer and songwriter had started. The next step of his career was in 1984 when he formed The Front with drummer Bob Wilson and recorded an album that was followed by a U.S and a European tour. In 1986 you could hear him sing a track called "Never too late to start" on the movie soundtrack "Running Scared". Funderburk also participated on a collection album called "Voices" featuring some great singers including Funderburk, Bob Carlisle, John Elefante among others. In 1987 Wilson and Funderburk reformed a band together and brought in Larry Williams on keyboards and saxophone, changing the name to What If and releasing an album on RCA. A couple of years later Tommy met Bruce Gaitsch at a recording session with Richard Marx and they wrote a song together. That was the start of King of Hearts whose debut album was released only in 1994 in Sweden, Japan and Germany. In the same year Tommy sang lead vocals on the fourth Boston album "Walk On". In 1996 Tommy Funderburk and Bruce Gaitsch recorded a follow-up to the first King of Hearts album called "Joy Will Come", released during the Autumn 1996 in Sweden, Germany and Japan. However, after this release Tommy and Bruce moved on to other things. In June 1998, Pony Canyon (Japan) released an acapella album featuring Tommy Funderburk, Joseph Williams (Toto), Bobby Kimball (Toto) and Jason Scheff (Chicago). The album contains acapella covers of hits from the seventies, for example "Stairway to Heaven", "I Shot the Sheriff", "What's goin' on" and "Sir Duke". In the past years Tommy Funderburk started to become more and more involved in the music industry, founding a label called Sovereign Artists. In the meanwhile he started to work on his first solo album recorded under the guidance of Fabrizio Grossi (Glenn Hughes, House of Lords etc.). Aptly titled "Anything For You" it features several songs co-written by Tommy with the likes of Michael Thompson, Bruce Gaitsch and Greg Mathieson which are a delight for all lovers of classic melodic rock and AOR in the style of Toto, Richard Marx and King of Hearts. | |
