Chuck Negron

Chuck Negron
Negron singing into a microphone onstage
Negron performing live in 2008
Background information
Birth name Charles Negron
Born (1942-06-08) June 8, 1942
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • composer
Instruments Vocals
Years active 1960–present
Labels Dunhill
Associated acts Three Dog Night
Website chucknegron.com

Charles "Chuck" Negron II (born June 8, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the rock band Three Dog Night, which he helped to form in 1968.

Biography

Negron was born on June 8, 1942, in Manhattan to Charles Negron and Elizabeth Rooke. At 5 years old, his father, a nightclub singer, and his mother divorced. Negron and his twin sister, Nancy, were placed in an orphanage by their mother. Two years later, she took them back.

Negron grew up in The Bronx, where he sang in local doo-wop groups and played basketball both in schoolyard pick-up games and at William Howard Taft High School. The latter talent led to his being recruited to play basketball at Allan Hancock College, a small community college in Santa Maria, California; later, he played at California State University, Los Angeles.[4]

Career

Music

In 1967, singer Danny Hutton invited Negron to join him and Cory Wells to found the band Three Dog Night. The group became one of the most successful bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, having sold approximately 60 million records and earned gold records for such songs as "One", "Easy to be Hard", and "Joy to the World".[5]

The rock and roll lifestyle took its toll on Negron, and by the time Three Dog Night disbanded in 1976, Negron had a serious heroin addiction which began in the early 1970s. In July 1975, the British music magazine, NME, reported that Negron had been arrested for cocaine possession in Kentucky.[6] He overcame his addiction in September 1991 and embarked on a solo career, recording the albums:

Book

He wrote his autobiography, Three Dog Nightmare (1999), in which he attributes his recovery from heroin addiction to his turning to God in desperation, after dropping out from more than 30 drug treatment facilities. A revised version with several new chapters was released in 2018.[13]

Personal life

In 2006, Negron was featured in an episode of the A&E reality show, Intervention, about his son Chuckie and grandson, Noah Negron.[14]

Negron has been married three times. He was married to Paula Louise Ann Goetten from 1970-73. They had one daughter, Shaunti Negron-Levick. In 1976, Negron married Julia Densmore, the former wife of The Doors drummer John Densmore. They divorced in 1985 having a son, Chuckie.

In 1993, Negron married Robin Silna and they divorced in 2001 having a daughter, Charlotte Negron.

Negron has a son, Charles Negron III, a stepson, Berry Oakley, Jr., and three daughters: Annabelle Negron, with actress Kate Vernon; Shaunti Ann Negron and Charlotte Rose Negron. Taylor Negron (an actor, comedian, painter, and playwright) was Negron's cousin.[15]

References

  1. ↑ George-Warren, Holly; Romanowski, Patricia, eds. (2001). The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (3rd ed.). Fireside. p. 990. ISBN 0-7432-9201-4.
  2. ↑ Hoffmann, Frank, ed. (2005). "Soft Rock And Related Styles". Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound. 2. Routledge. pp. 1011–12. ISBN 0-415-93835-X.
  3. ↑ Negron, Chuck (2008). Three Dog Nightmare: The Continuing Chuck Negron Story. Literary Architects. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-9336-6913-7.
  4. ↑ "Chuck Negron biodata". Ask.com. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ Freeman, Paul (August 15, 2012). "The dark, one-dog night of Chuck Negron". San Jose Mercury News.
  6. ↑ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London, UK: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 278. CN 5585.
  7. ↑ Negron, Chuck (1995). Am I Still In Your Heart?. Viceroy.
  8. ↑ Negron, Chuck (1996). Joy to the World. Viceroy.
  9. ↑ Negron, Chuck (1999). Long Road Back. Hip-O.
  10. ↑ Negron, Chuck (2001). Chuck Negron – Live In Concert. Sin-Drome Records.
  11. ↑ Negron, Chuck. Live and In Concert. Delta Distribution.
  12. ↑ Negron, Chuck. The Chuck Negron Story. Delta Distribution.
  13. ↑ Negron, Chuck & Blatchford, Chris (June 1999). Three Dog Nightmare: The Chuck Negron Story (Hardcover, First ed.). Renaissance Books. ISBN 1580630405.
  14. ↑ "Intervention Episode Guide". A&E Television Networks, LLC. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
  15. ↑ Looseleaf, Victoria (April 27, 2001). "For Negron, It's Totally Cool to Be Unhip". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 11, 2015.

Sources

  • Negron, Chuck; Chris Blatchford (2000). Three Dog Nightmare: The Chuck Negron Story. Renaissance Books. 158063155X.
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