Music of Florida

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Institutions
Concert Association of Florida - Florida Grand Opera - Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra - Raymond F. Kraviz Center - Rhythm Foundation - Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Organizations
Arts Council of Northwest Florida - Chopin Foundation
Venues
Quincy Music Theatre - Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall - Cruzan Amphitheatre
Festivals
Calle Ocho Festival - Carnival Miami - Miami Reggae Festival - Winter Music Conference - Sunfest
State song	"Florida" - "Florida, My Florida" - "Old Folks at Home"
Topics	Music of Fort Lauderdale - Music of Miami - Music of Sarasota

Florida's ethnic diversity has led to myriad musical styles from punk rock to salsa and heavy metal being popular in various parts of the state.

Early recording industry

The Miami recording industry began in the 1970s with Criteria Studios, which produced such noteworthy recordings as Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and Hotel California by The Eagles. Long-time local music entrepreneur Henry Stone and his label TK Records created the local indie scene in the 1970s. Also winter albums by Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, and Grand Funk Railroad, who were all Michigan bands down for the winters. T. K. Records produced the R&B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright, George McCrae and Jimmy "Bo" Horne as well as a number of minor soul and disco hits, many influenced by Caribbean music. In the 1970s and early 1980s Jacksonville saw a very active music recording scene with Southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers Band, 38 Special, The Outlaws, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Bellamy Brothers also recorded their style of country music in the mid to late 1970s. They originated from Darby, Florida, just north of Tampa in Pasco County.

Floridian Rap

Many underground rappers, like Trick Daddy, come from little-known cities & towns like Liberty City, an African-American and Latino neighborhood in northern Miami. Other mainstream South Florida rappers are Rick Ross, Ace Hood, Plies, Trina, Cool & Dre, Flo-Rida, and Jacki-O. North Florida also has rappers who have achieved success, though not at the rate of South Florida. To date, the only notable rapper from North Florida is T-Pain from Tallahassee. Orlando and Tampa have produced many rappers who are not in the mainstream.

R&B

Artists such as Sammie, Kirby Maurier & Black Dada are from Florida. Sammie's hit song "I Like It" & Black Dada's "Imma Zoe" have reached Billboard's Top 100 Songs and have been broadcast on network television networks B.E.T. , MTV & T.V. One.

Latin pop

There are many Latinos in Florida, and an especially high number of Cubans in cities like Miami. The regional Latin music industry includes a wide variety of traditional and popular Cuban styles, as well as other Latin music genres. The Cuban community has produced traditional performers like Cachao and Israel Kantor, as well as mainstream pop stars like Gloria Estefan. Estefan is the most famous musician to come from the Miami pop industry; others include Willie Chirino and Albita Rodríguez.^[1]

Florida breaks

Main article: Florida breaks

Florida breaks is a genre of breakbeat music originating in the state of Florida. It is particularly popular in the Orlando and Tampa Bay areas. In the latter, it is referred to as Tampa Breaks.

Miami bass

Main article: Miami bass

Miami bass is a booming, bass-heavy hip hop music that developed in the mid-1980s in Miami. Innovators on the scene included DJ Laz, while the scene eventually gained prominence through the Miami Bass group Luther Campbell's 2 Live Crew. The lyrics to Miami bass were often sexually explicit, and when 2 Live Crew began to achieve national attention, the words to their songs caused a controversy after several stores were prosecuted under obscenity laws for selling the disc, and members of 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing songs from the album Nasty As They Wanna Be.^[1] And Premier DJ, DJ Laz with many CDs on the market now.

Rock

A number of popular rock bands of the mid- to late-1990s got their start in Florida. Two of the most notable of these are Rock/Alternative/Post-Grunge band Matchbox Twenty, who originate from Orlando, and rock band Creed, who hail from Tallahassee.

Usually associated with what has become known as the new wave of popular alternative music is Chris Carrabba and his band, Dashboard Confessional from Boca Raton. Dashboard Confessional quickly became popular with their pop rock music in the early 2000s. His former band, Further Seems Forever, is also a popular indie rock band from Pompano Beach.

Marilyn Manson was created in the city of Fort Lauderdale, where they were discovered by Trent Reznor who went on to produce their debut album, "A Portrait of An American Family".

Platinum-selling pop/rock band New Found Glory are from Coral Springs, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale.

The band Less than Jake is from Gainesville, Fl.

Shinedown hails from Jacksonville, Fl

Punk

Florida has experienced periods in which punk rock flourished. Based in Gainesville, Fort Lauderdale/Miami, Tampa and other cities, hardcore punk gained a widespread following. One of the first bands in this style is believed to be Roach Motel of Gainesville, but The Eat, from Hialeah, had formed around 1978-79. Rat Cafeteria (Tampa), Sector 4, Hated Youth, and Paisley Death Camp (all from Tallahassee), F (Fort Lauderdale), Morbid Opera (Miami) and Crucial Truth (Pompano Beach) also gained an audience and some had songs compiled on the album We Can't Help It If We're From Florida. The band F continues to play and release new material today (www.foff.net) and The Eat occasionally play shows in South Florida.

The SlutBoys and The Implications were two early Tallahassee bands from 1980-81. The LP compilation Killed By Florida, an homage to the punk bootleg compilation series Killed By Death, contains a selection of tracks representative of the Florida punk scene from 1978 to 1985. Some point to the demise of Florida hardcore on an influx of hard-right skinheads.^[2] And the one and only punk rock special, The LivVers.

Hardcore bands from Orlando 1983-1989 included Dissent, Damage, The Bully Boys, Florida's Unwanted Children, Sewer Side Rouges, Declared Ungovernable, The Damn Maniacs, and The Genitorturers.

The new wave of pop-punk, emo, and screamo is heavily influenced by Florida bands, especially from Gainesville and South Florida. The Jeffersons, Spoke and Radon from Gainesville were early pioneers of the pop-punk genre. New found dead, a Coral Springs band, is a major player in the popular punk of the late 1990s and the 2000s.

Gainesville and Jacksonville had very active punk scenes in the 1990s. Less Than Jake, Against Me! and Hot Water Music are from Gainesville, while Yellowcard, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Evergreen Terrace are from Jacksonville, and Fake Problems are from Naples. Other Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, and Metalcore bands from Florida include: Against All Authority, Anberlin, Underoath, Poison the Well and Shai Hulud.

Tribute bands

In recent years a wave of tribute acts has emerged from primarily the Tampa Bay area and South Florida.

AC/DC tribute band HIGHWAY TO HELL [1] has led the pack playing many notable venues and festivals and sharing the stage with Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams of AC/DC in Sarasota, Florida in 2007. A tribute to Ozzy Osbourne called Bark at the Moon,^[3] and Motley Crue tribute Carnival of Crue ^[4] has emerged. These acts along with several others can be found here ^[5]

One of the most respected for their live performance and sound is Journey Tribute Odyssey Road which is the first and only Journey tribute act with a national recording of songs from the Journey catalog www.odysseyroadband.com These acts have been playing notable festivals like Gasparilla, Biketoberfest, and more. Some of the most successful tribute bands in Florida tend to be the contemporary acts like a Billy Joel^[6] tribute or a Jimmy Buffett show.^[7] Tribute bands are unlike cover bands, while cover bands usually play a variety of music a tribute act is more likely to specialize in a certain artist music and or dress the part as sometimes they do incorporate impersonators into the act to pay tribute to that specific artist. It is more like a stage production than a bar gig.

Indie rock

Indie bands Iron & Wine, Copeland and Two Years Till Tomorrow are from Florida, as well as Fake Problems from Naples. In addition to the nationally recognized talent this area has produced, an indie/americana scene is also popular in and around the Central Florida area. Another Indie Florida band was The Generators from Orlando, active from 1985 - 1992. The Generators were included on Breakout USA a Best Unsigned Band C.D. issues by the Westwood Radio Network in 1990. The Generators went on to work with Chris Wardman (producer) and Swell Entertainment of Canada. They recorded and released one album for Capitol/EMI Canada titled "Now Available in Paperback". In the mid 2000's Electric President and Black Kids emerged out of the Jacksonville Beach indie scene. Florida progressive rock/indie rock band Tides of Man have have produced two albums and are currently signed to Rise Records from Portland, Oregon.

Metal

Tampa has produced seminal metal artists such as Morbid Angel, Deicide, Obituary, Hate Eternal, Monstrosity, Nocturnus, Atheist and Acheron.

Tampa is also home to the infamous Morrisound Studios. Records such as Deicide's debut album, Deicide; Morbid Angel's debut album Altars of Madness, Scream Bloody Gore from Death, as well as many other classic death metal albums.

Ft. Lauderdale has produced a few metal bands as well, such as Kult ov Azazel, Hibernus Mortis and Thrash Or Die .

Progressive death metal legends Cynic, come from Miami

Orlando is notable for producing Death, one of the most definitive Death Metal acts in the scene. Trivium is also from Orlando.

Also the metal band Savatage, now known as Trans Siberian Orchestra, Hail's from the city of Tarpon Springs Having produced many album's back in the early 80's up to 1993 until the death of co founder and guitarist Criss Oliva, Savatage, Was one of the most successful underground band's to come out of Florida.

Nu-Metal

Nonpoint is from Fort Lauderdale and Limp Bizkit from Jacksonville.

See also

• Southern Rap
• Music of South Florida

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Unterberger, Richie (1999). Music USA: The Rough Guide. The Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-421-X. 
2. ^ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. ISBN 0-92291-571-7. 
3. ^ http://www.maximumbands.com/barkatthemoon.html
4. ^ http://www.maximumbands.com/carnivalofcrue.html
5. ^ http://www.www.maximumbands.com/tribute.html
6. ^ http://www.maximumbands.com/piano_man.html
7. ^ http://www.maximumbands.com/caribbean_chillers.html

1308 Productions: www.1308productions.org

External links

• Henry Stone Music
• The Florida Folklife Collections, which features examples from the various musical genres native to Florida
• Lakeside Jazz Festival - Port Orange, Florida
• Clearwater Jazz Holiday - Clearwater, Florida
• FloridaPunkRock.com - History of Florida Punk rock
• Gig Mag FL - Florida Music Source