Harry Wayne Casey
{{Short description|American musician and record producer (born 1951)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| image = KC and the Sunshine Band performing at Caesars Windsor, 2025-01-23 24.jpg
| caption = Casey in 2025
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|1|31}}
| birth_place = Opa-locka, Florida, U.S.
| origin = Hialeah, Florida, U.S.
| alias = KC
| instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|keyboards}}
| genre = {{hlist|Disco|funk|blue-eyed soul|R&B}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Record producer|musician|songwriter}}
| years_active = 1973–present
| current_member_of = KC and the Sunshine Band
| associated_acts = KC and the Sunshine Band
| website = {{URL|heykcsb.com}}
}}
Harry Wayne Casey (born January 31, 1951), better known by his stage name KC, is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter. He is best known for his band, KC and the Sunshine Band, with co-founder Richard Finch. Casey has enjoyed success and recognition as a producer of several hits for other artists, and as a pioneer of the disco genre of the 1970s.Randolph Heard, "An Interview with KC [Harry Wayne Casey]", in Shelton Waldrep, ed., The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture (London: Routledge, 2013), 283-92. {{ISBN|1136690611}}Craig MacInnis, That's the Way I Like It (The Harry Wayne Casey Story), Team Power Publishing, 2002, {{ISBN|2-89568-059-0}}{{cite web|work=Connect Savannah|url=https://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/kc-and-the-sunshine-band-still-going-strong/Content?oid=18157908|date=April 6, 2022|title=KC and the Sunshine Band still going strong|author=Sculley, Alan}}
Biography
He grew up in Hialeah, Florida and graduated from Hialeah High School in September 1969.{{cite web|title=The Boogie Man Is Back|author=Baker, Greg|date=September 19, 1969 |work=Miami New Times|url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/the-boogie-man-is-back-6365133}}
In January 1981, he survived a serious car crash when another car hit his vehicle head-on. He was left partially paralyzed for six months, and had to relearn how to walk, dance, and play the piano, but by the end of the year he was back in the recording studio.{{cite web | url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1996-11-21-9611190301-story.html | title=KC: He's Still Your Boogie Man | work=Sun Sentinel| date=November 21, 1996 }}
In the 1990s and 2000s he split his time between Miami Lakes, Florida and Durham, North Carolina.{{cite web|work=The Virginian-Pilot|date=August 28, 1997|author=VanHecke, Sue|title=KC COMES TO FESTIVAL AMID ECHOES FROM PAST, NEW ALBUM|url=https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970828/08280067.htm}}
Discography
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- Do It Good (1974)
- KC and the Sunshine Band (1975)
- The Sound of Sunshine (1975)
- Part 3 (1976)
- Who Do Ya Love (1978)
- Do You Wanna Go Party (1979)
- Space Cadet Solo Flight (1981)
- The Painter (1981)
- All in a Night's Work (1982)
- KC Ten (1983)
- Oh Yeah! (1993)
- I'll Be There for You (2001)
- Yummy (2007)
Selected compilations
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (1980) (compilation)
- The Best of KC and the Sunshine Band (1990) (compilation)
- Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1990) (compilation)
- KC and the Sunshine Band...and More (1994)
- Part 3... and More (1995)
- Get Down Live! (1995) (live)
- Shake, Shake, Shake and Other Hits (1997)
- I'm Your Boogie Man and Other Hits (1997)
- Yummy in My Tummy (1998) (live)
As songwriter
Songwriter: Harry Wayne Casey & Richard Finch
- "Rock Your Baby"{{cite web|title=Rock Your Baby|website=45cat.com|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/boy85| access-date=17 February 2023}} (1974) - George McCrae
- "Gimme Some" (1975) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "Dance Across the Floor" (1978) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "Get Happy" (1978) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "I Wanna Go Home with You" (1978) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "Don't Worry About It" (1978) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "It's Your Sweet Love" (1978) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "Let Me" (1978) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "Ask the Birds and the Bees" (1978) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "You Get Me Hot"{{cite web|publisher=Discogs|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/216777-Jimmy-Bo-Horne-You-Get-Me-Hot-They-Long-To-Be-Close-To-You|title=You Get Me Hot|date=1979 | access-date=8 February 2023}} (1979) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "Goin Home for Love" (Foster/Casey/Finch/Horne) (1979) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "I Get Lifted" (1979) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
- "Without You" (1979) - Jimmy "Bo" Horne
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.heykcsb.com/ Official website]
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- [http://www.classicbands.com/kc.html Band history]
- [http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/harry-casey Harry Casey Interview] at NAMM Oral History Library (2017)
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Category:American disco singers
Category:American funk singers
Category:American male pop singers
Category:American male singer-songwriters
Category:American people of Italian descent
Category:American people of Irish descent
Category:Record producers from Florida
Category:American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters
Category:KC and the Sunshine Band members
Category:Miami Dade College alumni
Category:People from Opa-locka, Florida
Category:Singer-songwriters from Florida
Category:Hialeah Senior High School alumni