Greg Dulli (born May 11 1965) is an American rock singer and instrumentalist. Dulli was born and brought up in a working-class suburb of Hamilton, Ohio. Dulli's father's side of the family comes from Kalamata-Peloponnese, Greece and his mother comes from West Cork, Ireland. He first came to public attention in Cincinnati in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs, when Dulli joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky, guitarist Rick McCollum. The band was comic punk rock. One indie rock critic wrote that The Afghan Whigs were "the most cartoony band in all of hairdom". Dulli's half-hour-long on-stage cigarette breaks, complete with running commentary on sexual politics and attempts at matchmaking at first enraged, but later fascinated the clientele.

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  • Greg Dulli (born May 11 1965) is an American rock singer and instrumentalist. Dulli was born and brought up in a working-class suburb of Hamilton, Ohio. Dulli's father's side of the family comes from Kalamata-Peloponnese, Greece and his mother comes from West Cork, Ireland. He first came to public attention in Cincinnati in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs, when Dulli joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky, guitarist Rick McCollum. The band was comic punk rock. One indie rock critic wrote that The Afghan Whigs were "the most cartoony band in all of hairdom". Dulli's half-hour-long on-stage cigarette breaks, complete with running commentary on sexual politics and attempts at matchmaking at first enraged, but later fascinated the clientele. Dulli's budding career in the rock and roll production business was halted as The Afghan Whigs began playing more and better gigs, drawing bigger and bigger crowds. The band was soon brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records in Seattle. Sub Pop's signing of The Afghan Whigs created quite a stir; they were the first non-Northwestern U.S. band to record for the label. The Whigs split in 2001.In 1994, Dulli was a lead vocalist in the Backbeat Band, an alternative-rock supergroup that recorded the soundtrack to The Beatles biopic, Backbeat. Other members of the Backbeat Band were Thurston Moore, Don Fleming, Mike Mills, Dave Grohl, and Dave Pirner . Dulli was the only musician that appeared on the Foo Fighters first record aside from Dave Grohl. He added a guitar part to the song "X-Static"In 1997, Dulli bought the movie rights to a book by Ann Imbrie called Spoken in Darkness but the film was never made. He is now the lead singer and main songwriter of the band The Twilight Singers who released their fourth album titled Powder Burns in May 2006. Dulli provides vocals for the song "Somebody Needs You" off of The Lo-Fidelity Allstars 2002 album "Don't Be Afraid of Love"In 2005 Dulli produced Ballads for Little Hyenas of the Italian Rock band, Afterhours. Dulli is working with Mark Lanegan in the project, The Gutter Twins. Lanegan also appears on The Twilight Singers EP, A Stitch In Time. Dulli always marks the booklets to his records with sentences in nicely-clumsy Italian. Greg Dulli is also an agnostic, though he was raised Catholic he denounced it in 1978. (en)
  • Greg Dulli (s. 11. toukokuuta 1965, Hamilton, Ohio) on yhdysvaltalainen muusikko, joka toimii laulajana The Afghan Whigs ja The Twilight Singers -yhtyeissä. Hän on soittanut kitaraa Dave Grohlin albumilla Foo Fighters kappaleessa "X-Static". Afghan Whigs -yhtye on lopettanut toimintansa, Twilight Singers jatkaa voimissaan vieläkin. Molemmat yhtyeet ovat Dullin projekteja. Hän kirjoittaa musiikin, soittaa ja laulaa oman materiaalinsa. Hän on myös näytellyt Ted Demmen elokuvissa Beautiful Girls ja Monument Ave, ja tuottanut soundtrackit molempiin elokuviin. Backbeat-elokuvan musiikkinauhoituksissa hän hoiti John Lennonin osuudet. Afghan Whigs oli ehkä kriitikoiden eniten ylistämä yhtye Seattle-buumin aikoihin, mutta kaupallinen menestys jäi pienemmälle. Yhtyeellä on silti runsaasti hardcorefaneja ympäri maailmaa. (fi)
  • Terminata la detenzione, nel 1986, i due decidono di continuare gli studi e si trasferiscono a Cincinnati dove, in universit�, conoscono un batterista, Steve Earle con il quale danno vita ad un gruppo rock chiamato Afghan Whigs. Al gruppo che mescola hardcore a soul e country si aggrega anche un fotografo-bassista, John Curley. Per una decina di anni gli Afghan Wighs producono una serie di più o meno acclamati dischi . Dulli nel 1996 ha collaborato come produttore alla colonna sonora del film Beautiful Girls di Ted Demme. Nel 1998 il tour americano di promozione del disco 1965 viene annullato per le intemperanze del solito Dulli che si frattura il cranio in una rissa. Dopo una breve convalescenza partecipa a More Oar - A Tribute To The Alexander Skip Spence Album cantando un brano. Dulli è attualmente chitarrista e cantante nei Twilight Singers e nei Gutter Twins, progetti iniziati dal 2000. Nel 2001, dopo mesi di insistenti voci di un ritorno, gli Afghan Wighs si sciolgono e Dulli si dedica completamente al progetto Twilight Singers. Il gruppo nei suoi vari tour toccherà spesso e volentieri l'Italia, paese molto amato e frequentato da Dulli, che non ha origini italiane come il nome potrebbe far pensare, ma ha dei trascorsi nella Catania alternativa, popolata da quel rock cupo e malinconico di Steve Albini e Cesare Basile. In Italia Greg Dulli ha anche dei forti legami di amicizia come quello con Manuel Agnelli e Giorgio Prette degli Afterhours, gruppo dal quale si farà accompagnare nei suoi tour statunitensi nel 2004. Alla fine del 2005 Dulli ha collaborato con il gruppo italiano Afterhours, unendosi spesso alla loro formazione durante le esibizioni dal vivo e co-producendo con Manuel Agnelli l'album Ballate per piccole iene e la sua versione americana Ballads for Little Hyenas. Nel 2006 Agnelli rende il favore suonando l'Hammond nelle date italiane di luglio dei Twilight Singers, Arezzo Wave e Bologna. Dulli, fumatore incallito, ha la particolatità di farsi sempre fotografare con la sigaretta stretta tra i denti ed ha addirittura attaccato un posacenere alla sua asta per il microfono. Per l'inizio del 2007 è stata comunicata la volontà di riformare gli Afghan Wighs. (it)
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  • The Gutter Twins at The Bowery Ballroom in 2008. From left: Greg Dulli, Mark Lanegan. (en)
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  • Terminata la detenzione, nel 1986, i due decidono di continuare gli studi e si trasferiscono a Cincinnati dove, in universit�, conoscono un batterista, Steve Earle con il quale danno vita ad un gruppo rock chiamato Afghan Whigs. (it)
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