Greg Dulli

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Greg Dulli

Greg Dulli (born May 11, 1965) is an American singer.

Dulli was born and brought up in a working-class suburb of Hamilton, Ohio. He is of Greek (father) and Irish (mother) descent. He first came to public attention in Cincinnati in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs, when Dulli joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky, guitarist Rick McCollum. The band was comic punk rock. One indie rock critic wrote that The Afghan Whigs were "the most cartoony band in all of hairdom".^{[citation needed]} Dulli's half-hour-long on-stage cigarette breaks, complete with running commentary on sexual politics and attempts at matchmaking at first enraged, but later fascinated the clientele.

Dulli's budding career in the rock and roll production business was halted as The Afghan Whigs began playing more and better gigs, drawing bigger and bigger crowds. The band was soon brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records in Seattle. Sub Pop's signing of The Afghan Whigs created quite a stir; they were the first non-Northwestern U.S. band to record for the label.

In 1994, Dulli was a lead vocalist in the Backbeat Band, an alternative-rock supergroup that recorded the soundtrack to The Beatles biopic, Backbeat (film). Other members of the Backbeat Band were Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Don Fleming (Gumball), Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Dave Grohl (Nirvana, later Foo Fighters), and Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum).

In 1997, Dulli (with Ted Demme and director Mark Pellington) bought the movie rights to a book by Ann Imbrie called Spoken in Darkness but the film was never made. He is now the lead singer and main songwriter of the band The Twilight Singers who released their fourth album titled Powder Burns in May 2006.

Dulli has also worked with Mark Lanegan Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan Band in the project, The Gutter Twins. Lanegan also appears on the Twilight Singers new EP, A Stitch In Time

[edit] Trivia

Dulli's father's side of the family comes from Kalamata-Peloponnese, Greece.
Dulli is a friend of Jerome Dillon, and performed a re-interpretation of The Afghan Whigs' song "Step into the Light" on Dillon's album nearLY: reminder.
Dulli was the only musician that appeared on the Foo Fighters first record aside from Dave Grohl. He added a guitar part to the song "X-Static"
Afghan Whigs are rumored to have been formed when Greg Dulli met his bandmates in the Athens Jail (Ohio) over Halloween Weekend in the 1980's. Ohio University, located in the town of Athens, is known in part for its celebration of Halloween.