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Gold record recording artist DELLIE HOSKIE Jr. is a musical master. He has been impressing the World with his Intense soul / funk musical expression for decades. Dellie writes, arranges and plays from his heart and soul with great passion, the way real music is suppose to be.
Dellie Hoskie was born on August 10, 1947, in Newport News, Virginia, the son of a Pentecostal minister who worked in a junkyard and a "stay-at-home mom" named Ardelia. He was one of nine children, and he says that while "a lot of the time we didn't have enough to eat, we always got along together as a family."
Dellie's interest in music started when he was a young man around the age of 12 years old. His father Dellie Hoskie Senior was a musician and played the guitar.
When Dellie was growing up at home, he would sneak into his father's bedroom and start playing the guitar because he wanted to be just like his father.
Eventually Dellie taught himself how to play chords and he would make up his own songs on the guitar This is how his passion for music began.
Dellie's first manager, one Eddie Noble, paid for the recording of The Clown at New Haven's Dynamic Studios, then released it on his namesake label, Noble Records. From there, it becomes one of those old classic tales of unscrupulous small-label heartbreak: I hooked up with him, signed the contract, says Dellie.
That was a big mistake. He did take it all over the airwaves, and there were interviews, and everything was paid for of course, travel and such. But there was no money. The singles "The Clown" & "How much can a man take" were both Gold records sold to fans all over the world in 1971 and made Billboard top 20 for two weeks.
Dellie was still playing music into the 1970s. He played a little with the Five Satins, he says,and toured with the gospel group the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, played guitar and sang with them for about two years. The thing about gospel groups is that anyone can sit and have fun. I had my own group up here in Connecticut for a couple of years. I did a lot of gospel.
But he also endured a failed marriage (he has four children), and the death of his brother Joseph, crushed to death at age 19 by one of those large junkyard magnets, says Dellie. As the years wore on, Dellie began drinking more and more. But he never got into the dope or coke, and he didn't bottom out until the death of his father, about twenty years ago. Aw, the eighties, I hit rock bottom then. I was killing the bottle, just killing it. There was my divorce. I tried to kill myself a couple times back then. It were rough. It were real rough. After my father passed, yes, that's when I hit the bottom. I wouldn't pick up the guitar, I wouldn't sing. I was in really in bad shape then. I lost a lot of weight, and people thought I had some disease. Man, it was the stress, I'm telling' you.
Well, he says, one night, my father, he comes to me in a dream in 2004 nearly 30 plus years later from his hit record, and he was real rough on me. He says, "What the hell you call yourself? What the hell you doin? I gave you all this talent! Go ahead, get your guitar, pick it up".
But I couldn't pick it up. A couple of nights later, he comes to me again in a dream, and he says the same thing. But still, I just couldn't do it. Then he come to me a third time, in a third dream, and he says, No worries, Dellie. Just do it. I'm with you; I never left you.' And I just started playin' when I woke up, and that's when When Real Love's Gone' comes from. I just started playin' it--every day, another song.
There would be another dream, this one with his deceased brother Joseph. As he relates the dream, Dellie lets out one of his trademark chuckles. All right, so I wake up and start smellin' the coffee, you know, and I'm thinkin', What am I gonna do with this music?' Wouldn't you know it but Joe comes to me in a dream one night, and he says, just type in demo' on the internet.
He did that, sent out a couple of dozen demos, and got about 15 responses, one of them from John J, DeGaetano of Arizona's AppolloEarBone Music Enterprises, Inc. My mother, she says to me, Dellie, you tried to kill yourself so many times. There's a reason you're still around. Dellie then recorded the full length CD called "I'm Back, but Real Love is Gone" on AppolloEarBone Music Enterprises, with John J. DeGaetano in 2004. The CD was released in stores and online in all major music outlets worldwide. With little money for promotions, the release had achieved modest success, but had stellar reviews from music publications around the world. The CD also achieved airplay in over 10 countries worldwide.
The songs on I'm Back But Real Love Is Gone reflect both his playful, fun side and his serious one, much as that famous single did, three decades back. It's My Birthday is a bouncy bit recorded in celebration of his 58th birthday this year.
Dellie's new Blues release "Junkyard Blues" was release
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