Chuck Mosely
| Chuck Mosley | |
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Mosley in 2016
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| Background information | |
| Born |
December 26, 1959 Hollywood, California, United States |
| Died | November 9, 2017 (aged 57) Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Genres | Funk metal, alternative metal, alternative rock, hardcore punk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1979–2017 |
| Labels | Dutch East India Trading, Rough Trade, Slash, Reversed Image Unlimited |
| Associated acts | Bad Brains, Cement, Faith No More, VUA, Indoria, Primitive Race |
Charles Henry Mosley III (December 26, 1959 – November 9, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, who was best known as the frontman for Faith No More from 1984 to 1988. During his tenure with the band, they released two albums, We Care a Lot and Introduce Yourself.
Mosley was born in Hollywood, California, but raised in South Central Los Angeles and Venice. He was adopted at a very early age, as talked about in the Faith No More biography book, The Real Story. Coincidentally, both his biological parents and his adopted parents had the same ethnic backgrounds. In a 2013 interview, Mosley said his adopted parents "met at some kind of socialist/communist get-together in the '50s. They were interracial - my mom was Jewish and my dad was black and Native American. So that was something controversial in itself. My dad had a daughter and my mom had two daughters, and all they were missing was a boy, so they went out and adopted one, and it was me."
Mosley first met Billy Gould in 1977, going to a The Zeros, Johnny Navotnee and Bags show. He then went on to play keyboards in Billy's first band, The Animated, in 1979. In 1984 he joined Haircuts That Kill, a post-punk band from the San Francisco area, which lasted up until Mosley's joining of Faith No More. He joined Faith No More in 1985 replacing, among others, Courtney Love (Hole) who had a brief stint as lead singer. AllMusic states that Mosley's "out of tune" vocals for Faith No More are "an acquired taste to most."
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