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Man Parrish

A native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Parrish was a member of the extended family that converged nightly at Studio 54. His nickname, Man, first appeared in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and his early live shows at Bronx hip-hop clubs were spectacles of lights, glitter, and pyrotechnics, which drew as much from the Warhol mystique as the Cold Crush Brothers.

His premier release was "Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)" issued in 1982, which was featured in Shaun of the Dead and GTA: Vice City. He eventually signed with Elektra Records but was dropped from the label in 1984 when it decided not to release the album he had recorded for it.