Singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and arranger Larry Ernest Blackmon. Born 24th May in New York City in 1956 he is best known as the lead singer, founder and frontman of the band Cameo. His father is Lee Black a former boxer. Whilst living in Harlem he played drums on several hits for Black Ivory.

Starting the band "East Coast", Larry formed the "New York City Players" in 1974 as a complement to the Ohio Players. They were signed to Chocolate City Records and having to rename the group because of a conflict of interest they became the much better Cameo. With a string of hits throughout the 70's and 80's Cameo were consistent in the R&B/Funk movement. Things would change with the turn of the decade, as Cameo inched higher up the charts with albums like Alligator Woman and Knights of the Sound Table, before they broke out with “She’s Strange,” a most unusual and entrancing song that went top 10 on the R&B charts and even became a pop hit. It also set the stage for 1985’s Single Life, an across the board smash that featured two charttoppers, “Attack Me With Your Love” and the group’s signature song, “Word Up.” They followed the next year with another huge hit, “Candy.”

Larry also founded Atlanta-based funk quartet CA$HFLOW, who had a hit with "Mine All Mine" in 1986.

Larry has made guest appearances as a backing vocalist on Ry Cooder's 1987 album Get Rhythm and Cyndi Lauper's 1989 album A Night to Remember. He also had co-producer credits on Eddie Murphy's 1989 album So Happy. The snare drum sound that he created for "Word Up!" and "Candy" has been duplicated on releases by a wide range of artists.

Larry continues to record and tour both at home and abroad with the current version of the group which consists of himself, Anthony Lockett and Aaron Mills.

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Larry Blackmon

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24th May 1956

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