Troutman, Roger

Troutman, Roger
▪ 2000

      American singer, songwriter, and producer who with his brothers founded (1975) the funk group Zapp, which had a number of hits in the 1980s, including “More Bounce to the Ounce”; he also worked as a solo performer and on recordings by various hip-hop artists (b. Nov. 29, 1951, Hamilton, Ohio—d. April 25, 1999, Dayton, Ohio).

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