![]() Alpert signed Vannelli and released his debut album, Crazy Life, in the summer of 1973. When Herb Alpert, the co-owner of A&M Records, finally emerged, Vannelli ran toward him and gave him a demo tape while being chased by security guards. Desperate and broke, they waited for hours in the parking lot outside A&M Studios, hoping to get a record deal. ![]() Vannelli and his brother, Joe, moved to Los Angeles in 1972. He studied music theory at McGill University in Montreal. In 1969, at the age of seventeen, he signed a contract with RCA Records, using the name Vann Elli. He admired Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, and he played drums in a pop band while he was in high school. His father, (Joseph) Russ Vannelli, sang with the Montreal dance bands of trumpeters Bix Belair and Maynard Ferguson. Vannelli was born to an Italian family in Montreal, Quebec.
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