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Lead Vocals
• Cindy Padgett |
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Cindy Padgett is a native of Southern California.
She started her singing and dancing career in Orange County at Knott’s
Berry Farm in the Wild West Saloon Shows and at Disneyland as Mary Poppins
in Fantasy on Parade. She then became a singer/dancer for a nightclub
act performing in Los Angeles, Palm Springs and Japan. Back in the states
she went on to Las Vegas to become one of the “Fabulous Sahara
Girls”, performing as an opening act for headliners such as Johnny
Carson, Buddy Hackett, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, Rodney Dangerfield
and George Carlin. They also performed on the Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson. She continued to perform as lead singer/dancer for a variety
of shows in Reno, Lake Tahoe, Atlantic City, Aruba., and a second tour
of Japan. And landed back in Las Vegas performing as lead singer, dancer,
and company manager in a 7-year-running song and dance revue. She is
now bringing her years of show biz experience to SW Florida. She has
started teaching adult tap dance classes and is now singing with her
new friends and band mates “Sound Check”.
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Guitar
and Vocals • Carl De Aloe |
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Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Carl
De Aloe began his musical career singing acapella on street corners
and hallways in the neighborhood of Dion and the Belmonts. At age 16
he taught himself to play guitar and formed his first band, “Bandido”.
Bandido played at various dance clubs throughout the five boroughs of
New York City. Within Two years, Carl and Mel (his bandmate) soon became
part of the rhythm section for the Fania Records singing star Joe Bataan.
Carl’s “tasteful, unique” guitar style was written
about in an article in 1971 in New York Magazine which traced the origins
of Joe Bataan and his Orchestra . Touring the tri-state area, Joe Bataan
and the eight piece orchestra, a Latin/Soul crossover band, played venues
which included, Madison Square Garden, Town Hall, The Philadelphia Coliseum
as well as many major Universities. Carl had the opportunity to record
with Joe and “The Saint Latin’s Day Massacre” album
was sold nationally and played frequently on New York radio stations.
After getting married and beginning his career as a New York City School
Teacher, he put his music career on hold. He took an early retirement
from teaching, and has resumed his love for music. Now living in Southwest
Florida, Carl has played with New Direction, and The Mango Project.
He is very excited to again return to the great horn sounds he’s
always loved playing with the band “Sound Check”.
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Keyboards, Bass
and Vocals • Skip Perry |
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Skip Perry is a native of Alabama where he
graduated from The University of Alabama with B.S. and M.A. degrees.
He has been playing music professionally for 41 years. He plays keyboards
and bass pedals with Sound Check. Skip has played for many well-known
entertainers such as Eddie Arnold and former 50’s singer Jimmy
Clanton, both while living in Fort Myers and while traveling. He traveled
with his own band in the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Delaware area during
the late 1970’s before moving to Florida in 1981. Skip has been
teaching middle school band for the last 25 years while remaining active
as a musician. When not playing or teaching music he is usually busy
working on the experimental airplane he has been building for the last
three years.
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Saxophone and Vocals • Randy
Van Alstine |
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Randy Van Alstine hails from Decatur, Illinois
and is the grand old man of the group. He has played alto and tenor
saxophone and sung with rock groups since 1958. His first group, at
age 15, was “Chuck Givens and the Quintones,” a group that
played early rock and R&B from 1958-1963. He traveled on the road
from 1963-1965 with “The Scarletts”, a show band out of
Philadelphia. He continued playing with various groups during his years
in the US Army, college and dental school in Minnesota. In 1979, he
returned to Decatur to start his dental practice and helped form a 13-piece
group called “The Greater Decatur Rhythm and Blues Band”
that played from 1980-1985. Most recently, Randy played in Decatur with
“Rock of Ages” from 1998-2003 and in 2004 formed a very
popular band called “Soul Purpose” that still plays about
12 gigs a year in Decatur when he is not playing with “Sound Check”
in Naples. Randy retired from dentistry in August 2007 and now makes
his home in Naples. He says, “You’re never too old to play
rock and roll!”
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Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals •
Tommy Smith |
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Tommy Smith began performing music professionally
at the age of fourteen. Currently serving as Professor of Music at Edison
State College in Fort Myers, Florida, Tom is a highly experienced musician,
composer, and educator. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree
in Trumpet Performance from the University of Texas at Austin, where he
studied with the renowned trumpet artist and teacher, Raymond Crisara.
As a music educator, he has taught instrumental music and applied trumpet
at the middle school, high school, and college levels in Texas, Georgia,
and Florida.
Tom maintains an active professional performance and writing career and
has shared the stage with numerous prominent artists and groups from many
different genres of music. His many and varied credits in Rock, R&B,
Jazz, Classical, Variety; and Musical Theater include performances with
Lionel Hampton; Diane Schuur; Charlie Haden; Gunther Schuller; Kenny Wheeler;
the Crowder All-Star Jazz Orchestra; the Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra;
the Rome Symphony Orchestra; the Chamber Players of the South; the Blue
Mountain Brass; the Georgia Bach Festival Orchestra; the Radio City Music
Hall Rockettes; Tiny Tim; the Shrine Circus; the Gospel International
Choir; Duck Soup; the Disciples of Blues; the Bongodogs; Helix; and many
others. |