Shallowbag Shag Beach Music Festival Coming Memorial Day 2014

Bill Cisco and the Drifters would love to perform for your next event! [email protected] (+1-470-222-4726) Bill Cisco is one of The American Music Industry’s most prestigious behind the scenes singer-songwriters of the times. As one of Motown’s renaissance men, Bill wrote, produced, sang and played a variety of instruments. It was during the Motown era that he assumed a fulltime rolls with The Drifters. He wrote and produced songs for the group with co-producers Gene McFadden and John Whitehead. Their production team also composed and produced songs for Freddie Jackson, Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Lou Rawls, The Ojays and more. Their hits include “For The Love Of Money,” I’ll Always Love My Momma,” “Bad Luck,” “Wake Up Everybody,” “Where Are All My Friends”, “Backstabbers” and “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now”. The team amassed over 22 gold records, two platinum albums and two Grammy nominations. Bill also worked side by side as a producer with the legendary Curtis Mayfield at Mayfield’s Curtom Records for many years. Amidst all, he’s maintained his status as CEO with “The Drifters”.
His group managed to produced a series of back-to-back gold records that established and solidified their prominence in the industry. Hits like the ever popular classics, “There Goes My Baby”, “Under The Boardwalk”, “White Christmas”, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, “This Magic Moment”, “Up On the Roof” and “On Broadway” paved the way to an infallible legacy. Bill’s contribution to the ongoing preservation of this successful legacy has earned him five Grammy nominations and numerous other awards. In 1988, the group was inducted into the R-n-R Hall of Fame. Bill is currently a philanthropist promoting equality in education, social justice and Civil Rights for women in disadvantaged communities on the African continent and throughout the world. He is an impassioned advocate of women’s empowerment and education. His Drifters organisation partners with several notable Trusts and nonprofit organisations to performs benefit concerts throughout America and around the world promoting various humanitarian causes.