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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 • Larry O'Connor |
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Larry O’Connor has logged over 20 years as a full-time professional entertainer, performing for diverse age groups and musical tastes as one of the most well-known piano bar performers in Chicago. Larry then spent 4 years working with SoundCheck's vocalist Cindy Padgett at the premier restaurant of the Denver Performing Arts Center, the Theatre Cafe. Larry now reunites with Cindy to add multiple keyboards and vocals to SoundCheck. In addition, Larry and Cindy are available for in season house parties in SW Florida as their original Denver duo , SumTotal. See http://larryoc.com/las_vegas_cindy.htm for more info.
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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. |
Drums • Bobby Paoletta |
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Bobby Paoletta was born outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., in Sharon, Pa. He started playing drums at an early age, and started adding vocals shortly after.
His band of notoriety was called "Menagerie." This band featured five vocalist sharing the leads, Bobby and four other singers. |
Past Members |
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