Red Young
| Red Young | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Don Michael Young |
| Born |
May 8, 1948 Fort Worth, Texas, United States |
| Genres | Rock, jazz, blues, pop, fusion jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, vocalist |
| Instruments | Piano, keyboards, Hammond organ, synthesizer |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Associated acts | Eric Burdon, Joan Armatrading, Sonny & Cher, Eric Johnson |
| Website | redyoung.com |
Don Michael "Red" Young is an American keyboard, piano, synthesizer and organ player.
He grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. He began playing piano at age 3 and did his first classical recital at age 8. He toured with Clyde McCoy (Sugar Blues) in 1967, Air Force Band 1968-72 and 1974 joined Lloyd Price (Stagger Lee, Personality) for a brief tour returning to Ft Worth where he joined Warren and Bill Ham, Darryl Norris and formed the Ham Brothers Band. The band did much recording at Huey Meaux's Sugar Hill Studio in Houston and he recorded with Freddy Fender, Noel Redding, Kinky Friedman, Joe Barry and many others during that period.
In 1976 he toured with Tompall Glaser, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter (Wanted! The Outlaws) the first platinum country album.
After the tour, he joined Sonny & Cher and moved to Los Angeles and subsequent tours and recordings with Joan Armatrading, Dolly Parton, Tanya Tucker, Eric Burdon and Linda Ronstadt with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra in addition to many TV, movie and live shows throughout the world. He learned writing for orchestra along the way and studying Nelson Riddle and Victor Feldman among others.
In 1985-87 he returned to Ft Worth to form Red and the Red Hots, a 10 piece swing band as lead vocalist, arranger and musical director performing more than 400 shows during the three-year period including a concert with the Ft Worth Symphony. "The Redhots" included female vocalists Cassie Miller, Dina Bennet, Jennifer Griffith and Rebecca Kyler Downs.
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