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BELLAMY BROTHERS

BELLAMY BROTHERS (b. Derby, Fla.; David [keybds, voc], b. September 16, 1950, and Howard [gtr, voc], b. February 2, 1946) The Bellamy Brothers are sweet-voiced harmonizers whose music is an amalgam of country, rock, and mainstream pop. The brothers were born in rural Florida; their father was a farmer who played DOBRO and FIDDLE in an amateur BLUEGRASS band. David was the first to make it into the musical big time, in the mid-1960s, as a member of an R&B band called The Accidents that backed…

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