Howard Kaylan
| Howard Kaylan | |
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Kaylan performing in 2008 billed as "The Turtles Featuring Flo & Eddie"
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Howard Kaplan |
| Also known as | "Eddie" |
| Born |
June 22, 1947 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock and roll |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Vocals • Keyboards • Clarinet |
| Years active | 1964–present |
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| Website | www |
Howard Kaylan (born Howard Kaplan, June 22, 1947) is an American rock and roll musician and writer, best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band The Turtles, and as "Eddie" in the 1970s' rock band Flo & Eddie.
Kaylan was born in the Bronx to a Jewish family and grew up in Westchester, a suburb of Los Angeles. He studied choral music and clarinet, and won a Bank of America Fine Arts Award at age 16. He graduated early (as valedictorian) from Westchester High School, and briefly attended University of California, Los Angeles on a scholarship.
Kaylan and Mark Volman founded The Turtles, a popular band of the late 1960s. At the end of 1970, Kaylan and Volman signed on as members of Frank Zappa's band, The Mothers of Invention. The pair recorded tracks on five albums, toured to support them, and appeared in the film 200 Motels, a semi-documentary flick directed by Zappa. They were compelled to use the names Flo & Eddie ("Flo" being shortened from "Phlorescent Leech") and were not allowed legal use of their own names, or that of The Turtles, until multiple lawsuits from that band were settled in 1985.
In 1985 the name "The Turtles" reverted to Kaylan and Volman after fifteen years in litigation, as well as all of the master recordings they made. Thanks to Burger King, the NFL, Sony PlayStation, and countless other television advertisements and motion pictures, the Turtles' catalog remains a staple for licensing and reproduction in the twenty-first century.
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