Everett Bradley is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, choreographer and playwright. He is currently a touring member of the rock band Bon Jovi.

Biography

Born in South Carolina, Bradley attended

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on a vocal scholarship. He first came to the East Coast to play with

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. He has toured as a background vocalist and percussionist with Bruce Springsteen and the

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, Jon Bon Jovi, and

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. His theatre credits include being part of the creative team of ''

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'' (Theatre World Award 2000), being the first American to perform with and direct ''

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'', for which he was nominated for a Grammy, and performing in the Cotton Club musical revue '' After Midnight''. He has served as musical director for Carly Simon and NBC's '' The Meredith Vieira Show'', for which he also wrote the show's theme song and other music included in the program. He has recorded with GRP Records' Dee Carstensen,

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, Polygram act Jane Williams, Verve's Chris Botti and

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. Bradley also performed vocals on the 1995 hit single from the Original, "

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". Starting in 2002, he began putting on his own funk-influenced holiday production, Holidelic, which has seen guests such as Fred Schneider,

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and

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. He has also worked and performed as a

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and

backing vocalist A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

with American

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band Bon Jovi in 2003 during ''

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'' session, and currently he became the touring percussionist for Bon Jovi in 2016 to support the band's

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. In video games, he provided the voice of Paul Chuck in ''

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,'' as well as his vocals to the songs "Throw It All Away", "Rhythm and Balance", "The Supernatural", "For True Story" and "Supporting Me" for the character

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in ''

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''.

References

Living people African-American male singers American percussionists E Street Band members Hall & Oates members People from Greenwood, South Carolina Year of birth missing (living people) Daryl Hall and the Daryl's House Band members {{US-musician-stub