Daryl Hall
Daryl Hall
Daryl Franklin Hohl, better known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American rock, R&B, and soul singer; keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth11 October 1946
CityPottstown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
philadelphia black towns
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
fun mtv pioneers
I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.
artist years careers
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
thinking age golden
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
success-and-failure surprising
Success and failure are equally surprising.
two ephemeral depth
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
heart causes problem
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
house records way
The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.
assistants rooms superstar
If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
extreme
You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.
caught diseases fairly four stuff treated
I have four different diseases I'm being treated for, and I got lucky. I caught it fairly early. Neurologically, it does stuff to people. It's really nasty.
advocating crossover music
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.
people politics trusting
Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.
nervous truth ways
Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.