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Im the skat man3/22/2023 ![]() ![]() He once claimed that he could barely start a performance in Spain, because people just wouldn't stop screaming for him. His debut album, Scatman's World, got some impressive success from international audiences. The Scatman's titular song was an international sensation, even if his home country of America only got it to #10 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club chart, and #60 on the Hot 100. That the stutter and the scat is the same thing. He got a standing ovation for it.Īs a matter of fact, don't let nothin' hold you back.Įverybody's sayin' that the Scatman stuttersīut what you don't know I'm gonna tell you right now Things changed during one fateful gig on a cruise ship, where he got up the courage to try some scatting during a performance. ![]() He began primarily as a piano player, because he felt it gave him something to hide behind on stage, and he was immensely talented at it, which got his career some traction. He still had a great passion for jazz and loved performing it, and Larkin went so far as to call music "a salvation" for him. It was a rough road getting to a music career, as Larkin had a speech impediment - a severe stutter, as mentioned earlier, one that he'd have for his whole life - that got him bullied through his childhood, and made him too embarrassed to try his hand at singing for much of his career. He is best known for the somewhat self-titled song "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)".īefore he came up with the Scatman persona, John Larkin was an accomplished jazz pianist, having even released a Self-Titled Album under his own name. Although born and raised in California, he was much more popular in Europe and Japan than he ever was in the United States. ![]() As it turned out, that stutter translated into a truly impressive talent for Scatting, and in an improbable crossover (for the mid-1990s, that is), he applied that scatting ability not to his traditional jazz music which he devoted much of his life to, but to Europop/Eurodance music. Scatman John (real name: John Paul Larkin, Ma December 3, 1999) was a singer and jazz/pop pianist, famous for singing despite having a Speech Impediment which made him stutter. ![]()
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