Real name: Michael Bruce Blackman

American singer/songwriter and keyboard player.

Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and raised in in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended Mississippi State University. Formed New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960s soft pop group Eternity's Children. Left that group and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1969. In 1972, formed "Mississippi." In 1974, joined a group called "Extravanganza," which became soft-rock group Starbuck when signed to Private Stock Records in February 1975.

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