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Roger Troutman November.29.1951 - April.25.1999

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Roger Troutman
was the lead singer of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the Funk movement and heavily influenced West Coast hip hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music over the years. Troutman was well known for his use of the talk box, a device that is connected to an instrument (frequently a keyboard) to create different vocal effects. Roger used a custom-made talkbox—the Electro Harmonix "Golden Throat," as well as a Yamaha DX100 FM synthesizer.

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Roger Troutman on The Talkbox (Video Soul 1987)

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Roger Troutman was the lead singer of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the Funk movement and heavily influenced West Coast hip hop due to the scene’s heavy sampling of his music over the years. Troutman was well known for his use of the talkbox, a device that is connected to an instrument (frequently a keyboard) to create different vocal effects. Roger used a custom-made talkbox—the Electro Harmonix “Golden Throat,” as well as a Yamaha DX100 FM synthesizer. As both lead singer of Zapp and in his subsequent solo releases, he scored a bevy of funk and R&B hits throughout the 1980s.

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Roger Troutman - Funkster

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Funkster and creative genius, Roger Troutman was born on 29th November 1951 in Hamilton Ohio. Roger was master of the vocoder voice-distortion box, a keyboard synthesiser that created robotic sounding vocals for which he later became renowned. What had previously been used for gimmicky effects, Troutman often used to take along with him to radio interviews, entertaining the listeners with his amazing skills on the instrument. Roger formed a group with his brothers Lester, Larry and Tony and called it the ‘Zapp & Roger Group’ with whom he had success through Warner Brothers & it’s subsidiary label Reprise in the 70’s and the 80’s. The group were greatly influenced by their hometown heroes the Ohio Players as well as other funk groups.

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R&B/Hip-Hop Stars To Honor Roger Troutman

Source: Billboard.com

Known for his masterful use of vocoder (or talk box), an instrument that utilizes a keyboard to manipulate vocals, Troutman, who was shot and killed by his brother and Zapp bandmate Larry in 1999, gained the appreciation of a number of hip-hop artists throughout the '90s. Perhaps most notably, his "So Ruff So Tuff" was sampled by Tupac Shakur on "California Love" and his "More Bounce to the Ounce" was used on EPMD's "You Gots to Chill."

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