On Your Birthday
by Jim Boggia
by Jim Boggia
b. Flint, Michigan, USA. This Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter started playing guitar at the age of five and was writing songs by his early teens. Partial blindness meant he found increasing refuge in music, and by the late 80s he had left his native Michigan and moved to Philadelphia. He held down a day job and persevered with a failing marriage for a number of years, but music remained an integral part of his life. By the late 90s Boggia had become entrenched in the Manayunk-based music scene, hosting an open mic night at the Grape Street and backing established artists such as Jill Sobule and Bernadette Peters. His 2001 debut, Fidelity Is The Enemy, was a glorious recreation of late 60s/early 70s era pop rock, with unusual instrumentation including the glockenspiel, sleigh bells and the Theremin thrown into the mix.
Boggia's work with 4 Way Street, a folk rock band he formed with local singer-songwriters Ben Arnold, Joseph Parsons and Scott Bricklin, eclipsed his solo work for the next two years, with the quartet completing 2003's beautiful Pretzel Park. His second solo album, 2005's Safe In Sound, saw Boggia leaving Philadelphia for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles to complete the recording, with notable support from Sobule, Aimee Mann and Wayne Kramer.
DISCOGRAPHY: Fidelity Is The Enemy (scrApple 2001)****, Safe In Sound (Bluhammock 2005)***.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Copyright 2008 by Muze Inc.; all rights reserved.
Boggia's work with 4 Way Street, a folk rock band he formed with local singer-songwriters Ben Arnold, Joseph Parsons and Scott Bricklin, eclipsed his solo work for the next two years, with the quartet completing 2003's beautiful Pretzel Park. His second solo album, 2005's Safe In Sound, saw Boggia leaving Philadelphia for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles to complete the recording, with notable support from Sobule, Aimee Mann and Wayne Kramer.
DISCOGRAPHY: Fidelity Is The Enemy (scrApple 2001)****, Safe In Sound (Bluhammock 2005)***.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Copyright 2008 by Muze Inc.; all rights reserved.
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