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BLP sources|date=August 2011Infobox musical artist | name = Ivan Neville| image = Ivan_Neville_photo.jpg| caption = Neville performing at the 2005 Bourbon Street Fest| image_size = 250| landscape = yes| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1959|8|19| origin = New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans , Louisiana , United States | instrument =| genre = Rock and roll , Rhythm and blues|R& B | occupation = Musician | years_active = 1983–present| label = Polydor Iguana Records Uptop Entertainment Compendia Records| associated_acts = Neville Brothers Keith Richards The Insects| website = http://www.ivanneville.com www.ivanneville.com Ivan Neville (born August 19, 1959, New Orleans , Louisiana ) is a multi-instrumentalist musician , singing|singer , and songwriter . He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to members of The Neville Brothers .
He has released four solo (music)|solo album s and had a Top 40 Billboard (magazine)|Billboard chart-topper|hit with "Not Just Another Girl" from his first solo album If My Ancestors Could See Me Now . His second single "Falling Out of Love" charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and appeared on the soundtrack for the John Ritter film , Skin Deep (1989 film)|Skin Deep in 1989. While it was never a huge charting song, Neville's "Why Cant I Fall In Love" has also become a sleeper fan-favorite, gaining fame from the 1990 Soundtrack to the Christian Slater film, " Pump Up the Volume (film)|Pump Up the Volume ".
Neville has played with and appeared on several Neville Brother records, as well as his father’s solo records. He performed in Bonnie Raitt 's band from 1985 to 1987 and contributed the song "All Day, All Night", co-written with bassist James Hutch Hutchinson (musician) to her Nine Lives CD. He also contributed keyboard instrument|keyboards to two The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones albums, 1986’s Dirty Work (The Rolling Stones album)|Dirty Work and 1994’s Voodoo Lounge as well as being a member of Keith Richards ’ solo band the X-Pensive Winos. In 1988, he toured with Richards after sound recording and reproduction|recording Talk is Cheap , and was the opening act for the shows, since If My Ancestors Could See Me Now was released.
Apart from appearing on several other musician|artists’ gramophone record|records , including Don Henley , Bonnie Raitt , Robbie Robertson , Rufus (band)|Rufus , Paula Abdul , and Delbert McClinton , he was a member of the Spin Doctors , touring and recording on the group's album Here Comes the Bride (album)|Here Comes The Bride in 1999–2000, including assuming lead vocal duties when Chris Barron lost his human voice|voice .
In 2003, he formed his own band Dumpstaphunk http://www.theunion.com/article/20110729/PROSPECTOR/110729759/1018& parentprofile=1055 The party of the year will be a ‘slam dunk' with Dumpstaphunk and appeared, among other places, on the Late Show with David Letterman . When the levees failed in New Orleans in 2005, Neville joined The New Orleans Social Club and recorded the benefit album Sing Me Back Home with producers Leo Sacks and Ray Bardani at Wire Studios in Austin, Texas. Neville's searing version of John Fogerty's "Fortunate Son" was critically acclaimed. "Catharsis never sounded cooler," raved Entertainment Weekly . In 2007, with Dumstaphunk and B.B. King , he participated in a tribute album to fellow New Orleans musician Fats Domino , contributing his version of the title song to '' Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino ( Vanguard Records ).
Through the Tipitina's Foundation , along with other New Orleans musicians, Neville has been active in performing benefit shows in support of Hurricane Katrina charities.
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Dumpstaphunk band website: http://www.dumpstaphunk.com/
The Tipitina's Foundation helps New Orleans artists recover from Hurricane Katrina: http://www.tipitinas.com/default.asp
Matthews, Bunny. http://offbeat.com/artman/publish/printer_1060.shtml "Ivan Neville: Return of the Prodigal Son" OffBeat . (Accessed 27 May 2007).
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