Daryl Hall
Daryl Hall
Daryl Franklin Hohl, better known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B, and soul singer; keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth11 October 1946
CityPottstown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
philadelphia black towns
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
boys careers ideas
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
differences people generations
The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.
hard-work ifs hard
If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
philadelphia people soul
I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
song care ifs
If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
teenager mean waiting
I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.
song trying singers
As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
song writing people
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
years six belief
Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
years england
I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
duos accused
Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
song feel-good want
Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
college thinking
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.