13 Facts About Chuck Negron

Charles Negron II was born on June 8,1942 and is an American singer-songwriter.

Chuck Negron is best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Three Dog Night.

Chuck Negron was born on June 8,1942, in Manhattan, New York City, to Charles Negron, a Puerto Rican nightclub singer, and Elizabeth Rooke.

Chuck Negron grew up in the Bronx, where he sang in local doo-wop groups and played basketball both in schoolyard pick-up games and at William Howard Taft High School.

Chuck Negron was recruited to play basketball at Allan Hancock College, a small community college in Santa Maria, California and played later at California State University, Los Angeles.

In 1967, singer Danny Hutton invited Chuck Negron to join him and Cory Wells to found the band Three Dog Night.

Chuck Negron developed a serious heroin addiction, which began in the early 1970s.

In July 1975, the British music magazine NME reported that Chuck Negron had been arrested for cocaine possession in Kentucky.

Chuck Negron wrote his autobiography, Three Dog Nightmare, in which he describes his life as a high school athlete and a member of a successful rock band.

Chuck Negron writes about his descent into drug abuse and attributes his recovery from heroin addiction to his turning to God in desperation after dropping out from more than thirty drug treatment facilities.

Chuck Negron married Paula Louise Ann Goetten in 1970 and they divorced in 1973.

Chuck Negron married his manager, Ami Albea, on May 9,2020.

Chuck Negron has a daughter, Annabelle Chuck Negron, with actress Kate Vernon.