Band everlast biography
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Born Erik Schrody in 1970 in Hempstead, NY; son of a construction worker father and mother Rita Mulligan, a restaurant franchise manager; one sister, born c.
Band everlast biography
1973. Addresses: Home--Los Angeles, CA; Record company--Tommy Boy Music, 902 Broadway, 13th Flr., New York City, NY 10010 Phone: (212)388-8300.
Hip-hop singer Everlast, born Erik Schrody, makes a forceful case for claiming that despite being white and growing up in the suburbs, his gravitation toward the rap and hip-hop culture was as American as apple pie.
"If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos," he told Spin magazine's Charles Aaron. "Why don't we have a national culture? Because we have all cultures.
America has its fingertips into everything, and so does hip-hop, that's why it makes so much sense." Taking this notion to heart, the tattooed singer/rapper who converted from Catholicism to the Muslim faith and built an enormous collection o