David Was is, with his stage-brother Don Was, the founder of the influential 1980s pop group, Was (Not Was). Reviewed by "The New York Times" in 1980 as "the funkier art-funk band" (comparing them to Talking Heads), Was (Not Was) used members of Funkadelic; alongside jazz legends like trumpeter Marcus Belgrave; and singers Mel Tormé,and Ozzy Osbourne. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Was fled his native Detroit for California, … Wikipedia
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