Butch Wax & The Hollywoods
Featuring: Theo Peoples

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Butch Wax & The Hollywoods

BUTCH WAX & THE HOLLYWOODS celebrate their 27th year together in 2012 with one of the hottest shows around. The 10 member band from St. Louis features 2 keyboard players, 3 female singers, horns, and a fabulous rhythm section that is funky, soulful and fun - and second to none.

Butch Wax & The Hollywoods have been main stage performers during most of those 27 years, sharing the stage with the likes of Johnny Rivers, Chuck Berry, The Young Rascals, Lou Rawls, Johnnie Johnson, The Kentucky Headhunters, The Guess Who, The Association, The Romantics, Billy Peek, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and countless others. Members of the band also wrote, produced, and recorded several tracks with Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson on his last album, which included performances with Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Hornsby, Johnny Rivers, and John Sebastian.

Butch Wax & The Hollywoods have a brand new show for 2012. You'll hear great Oldies, the Motown classics, and the very best of the 50's, 60's, & 70's. Butch Wax & The Hollywoods are regular performers at concerts, corporate events, fairs, festivals, wineries, and private parties, and continue to bring their good times and great oldies dance music to sold out crowds throughout the United States. Hear the classic songs from the 50's, 60's and 70's with hits from Martha & The Vandellas, Elvis, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Four Tops, Johnny Rivers, Chuck Berry, Tina Turner, Sam Cooke, Al Green, The Supremes, Jackie Wilson, Aretha, Mitch Ryder, The Rascals, Sam & Dave, Rick Nelson, Fats Domino, The Righteous Brothers, and more!

Check out Butch Wax & The Hollywood's music and tour schedule at http://butchwaxandthehollywoods.com/.

Theo Peoples

Theo Peoples is an African-American R&B/soul singer. The son of a preacher, he was discovered by Ron Tyson and tapped to replace Richard Street in the long-lived Motown group The Temptations in 1992.

His first recordings with the group were released in the box set Emperors of Soul (1994) where he sang lead on "Givin' U The Best," "Elevator Eyes" and "Blueprint For Love." On the album For Lovers Only, Peoples sang lead vocals for "Night and Day," which was featured in the 2000 film What Women Want. After Ali-Ollie Woodson left the Temptations in 1996 due to his battle with throat cancer, Peoples assumed the role of lead second tenor/baritone for the group. Although he was replaced by Barrington "Bo" Henderson before the album's release, Peoples made significant contributions to the multi-platinum and Grammy Award nominated Phoenix Rising, singing lead on the group's #1 hit "Stay" and composing the single "This Is My Promise."

He joined the Four Tops, another classic-era Motown act, following his departure from The Temptations in 1998. After original Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs had to cease touring, Peoples took his place as lead singer. Renaldo "Obie" Benson, died July 1, 2005. Levi Stubbs also died in his sleep on October 17, 2008. Theo, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Ronnie McNeir, and Roquel Payton, son of the late Lawrence Payton, continued to tour and perform until he left the group in 2011 and was replaced by Harold "Spike" Bonhart.