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He helped set the bar for New Orleans funk with the Meters, who released eight albums between and and served as the backing band for artists like Dr.

John, Robert Palmer and Allen Toussaint. He then joined forces with his brothers Charles, Aaron and Cyril to form the Neville Brothers, a highly influential and respected soul outfit. Neville was born December 17th, and, as he and his brothers recalled in a profile in Rolling Stone , they grew up in a house with no record player, but one that frequently welcomed friends and neighbors, who came over with food and a guitar or a harmonica.

Following his first taste of success with the Hawketts, Neville joined the Navy for a six-year stint, that included two years on active duty. As the Meters began to splinter in the late Seventies, Neville began performing again with his family a contractual issue had actually prevented them recording together until about The experience inspired Art and his siblings to form their own group, which released their eponymous debut in Huey Lewis — those cats was onstage watching us every night.

The Stones was watching us. Neville would continue to tour and perform in the ensuing years, even as his health began to deteriorate. Cissy Strut, which reached No 23 on the mainstream Billboard chart, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in The group now included Cyril, who joined for their album Fire on the Bayou The brothers had already gathered the previous year to back their uncle George Landry on the album The Wild Tchoupitoulas.

At first the Neville Brothers were slow to gain recognition. Though Keith Richards hailed their album Fiyo on the Bayou as the finest of the year, sales were poor. They failed to release another studio album until Uptown , a conscious effort to find a more mainstream sound with Richards and Carlos Santana guesting that prompted accusations of a sellout.

In the group won a Grammy for best pop instrumental performance for the Yellow Moon track Healing Chant. Momee, Poppee, Jolly Cookie, they are all waiting on you. Growing up in a musical household on Valence Street and in the Calliope housing development, Mr.

Neville became an accomplished reed player by his teens, when he left high school to play music professionally. Neville served in the U. Navy, though he was stationed far from the sea, in Memphis from to In his joint autobiography "The Brothers Neville," written in , Mr. King's band. In the same book, Mr. Neville noted that he was in the Navy when he first began using hard drugs that would play a descructive role in his subsequent life.

Neville was imprisoned for more than three years in the early s at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, for possession of a small amount of marijuana, but that didn't diminish his love of music.

While in prison, he played with other stellar musicians in the KnickKnack band and studied books on musical theory.