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Sherman Marlow Garnes (June 8, 1940 – February 26, 1977) was an American singer and member of the doo-wop group, The Teenagers. Garnes attended Edward W. Stitt Junior High School, where he met Jimmy Merchant . [ 3 ]
Billy Lobrano, as the group's first white member, made them more racially mixed, now with two black, one white, and two Hispanic members. The group had little success with Lobrano, and he left. Sherman Garnes died of a heart attack in 1977, [3] while Joe Negroni died a year later due to a cerebral hemorrhage. [3]
In the early 1950s, Negroni, Santiago, and two other friends Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes would get together in front of Santiago's stoops (building stairs) and sing songs to the beat of Doo-Wops. [1] Negroni, who had a baritone voice, and his friends called themselves the "Ermines" with Santiago as lead singer.
Merchant was born on February 10, 1940, at 2:35 a.m. in Morrisania, Bronx, New York due to Harlem Hospital not having enough room at that time. [5]In September 1954, while attending Edward W. Stitt Junior High School, he met Sherman Garnes and formed The Earth Angels. then they formed The Coupe De Villes and Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni joined the group, Frankie Lymon watched the show ...
Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Manhattan, New York.In the early 1950s Santiago and friends, 2nd tenor Jimmy Merchant, fellow Puerto Rican Joe Negroni a baritone, and bassman Sherman Garnes, would meet in front of Santiago's apartment stoop (building stairs) and sing songs to the beat of the Doo-Wop genre. [2]
The Teenagers (including Sherman Garnes, Merchant, Joe Negroni, and Herman Santiago) recorded their harmony on August 4, 1956, without Frankie Lymon. Two months later, Lymon was brought into overdub as a lead singer. [7] In addition to the Teenagers' versions and Lymon's overdub, Merchant primarily constructed the harmony background. [8]
Garnes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Antoinette Garnes (about 1887–1938), American soprano singer; JoLynn Garnes, American film editor; Kåre Garnes (born 1954), Norwegian jazz musician; Leo Garnes (born 1968), Barbadian long-distance runner; Paul Garnes, American film and television producer
Sherman Garnes; L. Frankie Lymon; M. Jimmy Merchant; N. Joe Negroni; S. Herman Santiago This page was last edited on 29 May 2024, at 23:13 (UTC). Text is ...