Dawayne Bailey is an American

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ist who has toured and recorded with

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Véronique Sanson Véronique Marie Line Sanson (; born 24 April 1949) is a three-time Victoires de la Musique award-winning French singer-songwriter and record producer with an avid following in her native country. Ten years after Barbara, Véronique Sanson beca ...

, and

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. Bailey was born and raised in

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. While still attending

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in Kansas, he founded the band Rathbone, which developed a strong regional fan base. In 1972, Bailey and Rathbone moved to

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to foster their musical career.

Career

Bailey released his first solo recording in 1982, a

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of his song "Revenge of the Nurds". The release was suggested by Gerry Fialka, Bailey’s first manager who was also Executive Producer. Bailey then joined

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's band in summer 1982 and recorded '' No Looking Back'' on Full Moon/ Warner Bros. which was released in 1983. While playing live shows with McMahon's band, Bailey was requested by

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's office to fly to

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and audition for Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. Bailey joined Seger's band in Feb 1983 and sang backing vocals and played

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on Seger's The Distance tour, recorded Seger's ''

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'' album and performed in several videos. Bailey then formed his own band called Private Parts and recorded their debut album in 1986 called ''Dancing The Marmara''. It was during this time that Bailey's former bandmate Jason Scheff called him to audition for the lead guitarist spot in

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. Bailey toured and recorded with Chicago from July 1986 to January 1995, and was a contributor to their previously unreleased album, which was intended in 1994 to be titled ''Stone of Sisyphus''. He composed the title track for that album - he also shares lead vocals with Robert Lamm and plays all guitars on the title track, as well as composed another track called "Get On This". The latter was not included on the eventual June 2008

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release of '' Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus'' for unknown reasons. After Chicago, Bailey remained in Los Angeles and went on to perform and record with various original projects such as Shayna, Belly Puddle (featuring Jason Scheff's brother Lauren), and Bailey's own Goblin Girl Records releases. Bailey then toured and recorded with French legend

in 1998 and 1999. In October 2006, Bailey released the studio album, ''Joyland'', on his Goblin Girl label. He performed nearly all of the instrumentation and vocals, as well as assuming the majority of production duties. He also released ''Sketch'', a compilation of demos, unreleased material, and other miscellaneous tracks. In March 2007, Bailey was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. In February 2012, Bailey was inducted into the Manhattan High School hall of fame. Many of Bailey's contributions to Chicago were documented with many of his quotations, in the book ''The Greatest Music Never Sold'', chronicling the development of what became ''Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus''. His observations and advice about the general lifestyle of the touring musician is quoted in the book ''Musician's Survival Guide to Life on the Road''.

Discography

Videography

References

External links

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Official page
on Myspace *
Véronique Sanson's official website
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