1. Felix Cavaliere was born on November 29,1942 and is an American musician.
20 Facts About Felix Cavaliere
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Felix Cavaliere is best known for being the co-lead vocalist and keyboard player for The Young Rascals.
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Felix Cavaliere was born to an Italian-American family in Pelham, New York on November 29,1942.
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Felix Cavaliere enrolled at Syracuse University in the early 1960s as a pre-med major and performed at fraternity and sorority parties with his band The Escorts.
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Felix Cavaliere was friends with poet and songwriter Stephen Kalinich, and they both were in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
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Felix Cavaliere joined The Stereos, and moved on to form The Escorts, while attending Syracuse.
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Felix Cavaliere later produced albums by other artists such as Laura Nyro and Jimmie Spheeris.
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Between 1965 and 1972, Felix Cavaliere played keyboards and sang for The Young Rascals and The Rascals.
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Felix Cavaliere had a solo hit with "Only a Lonely Heart Sees", which reached No 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
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Felix Cavaliere recorded Dreams in Motion in 1994, produced by Don Was.
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Felix Cavaliere can be seen playing keyboard in the official video for "Hey Girl" by Billy Joel, a cover version of the Carole King song, recorded by Billy Joel in 1997 to add to his Greatest Hits Volume III compilation.
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The track was released as a single, but Felix Cavaliere was not playing on the recording.
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Felix Cavaliere reunited with his bandmates when the Rascals appeared at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, for six shows in December 2012 and for fifteen dates at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway.
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Felix Cavaliere appeared with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden on May 28,2015.
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In 2017 and 2018, Felix Cavaliere was a spokesperson in a television infomercial for the Time Life The 60s Music CD collection.
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In 1993, Felix Cavaliere was inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame.
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In 1997, Felix Cavaliere was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Rascals.
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Felix Cavaliere was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019.
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Felix Cavaliere was married to Mary Theresa Felix Cavaliere for 30 years and had three daughters with her.
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Felix Cavaliere's daughter, Aria Felix Cavaliere, is a singer based in Nashville, Tennessee.