Before he was spotted and signed by Motown Records bosses, the frontman of Bohannon & The Motown Sound got his start playing drums for Stevie Wonder in the mid-1960s.
- Apr 27, 2020
AceShowbiz - Disco legend Hamilton Bohannon has died.
The musician passed away on Friday, April 24, aged 78, reports Georgia's Newnan Times-Herald.
Known professionally as Bohannon, he got his start playing drums for Stevie Wonder in the mid-1960s, before he was spotted and signed by Motown Records bosses, who recruited him as a bandleader.
As the frontman of Bohannon & The Motown Sound, he toured with the likes of Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
He soon launched a solo career, releasing his debut album, "Stop & Go", in 1973, and scoring a string of popular disco tunes, including "Foot Stompin Music", "Disco Stomp", "Let's Start The Dance", and "Me and the Gang", which was famously sampled on DJ/producer Paul Johnson's Get Get Down in 1999.
Bohannon's music was also sampled in tracks by Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Justin Timberlake.
