Graham Clarke (musician)

Graham Clarke is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and entertainer. Active since 1995 and performing frequently in the New York metropolitan area, Clarke is regarded as one of New Yorks most popular and longlasting childrens entertainers and recording artists having played well over 5,000 musical performances on the east coast for both children and adults. His style has been described as funny and offcenter. He has yet to sign to any label and continues to selfpublish his music.

Graham Clarke was born in Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey on July 11, 1970. Clarkes parents, Lorain Maria Clarke , a homemaker, and Thomas Michael Moose Clarke, a stockbroker were married in 1960 and had three children before Graham Thomas in 1961, Dennis in 1962, and Martin in 1965. He spent the first seven years of his life in a splitlevel home in Dumont, New Jersey. He was frequently in the room when his older brother Tommy would have guitar lessons with musician Bob Berger. Bob noted one time when a screaming Graham had scarlet fever That boys screaming on key! Thats a C note. Such exposure to music had an obvious influence on him and there is an ofttold family story that claims the first song Graham ever learned to sing was Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, a popular song Tommy was learning on the guitar at the time. At the age of seven, his family moved one town over to Oradell, where he attended St. Joseph Grammar School, and later Bergen Catholic High School.

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