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William Mylar William Mylar (aka Mylar) was born William James Adelman to Gordon P. Adelman and Carol A. (Popescu) Adelman in Sacramento, CA on September, 28, 1954.

Mylar coined the term Folk Wave in the late 1970s to describe his unique solo presentation of original and arranged cover music. Folk Wave was inspired by the Punk and New Wave movements, although, at the time, Mylar’s music was primarily rooted in American folk-based rock and roll and especially influenced by the improvisational styles of the Grateful Dead. William Mylar has never performed the same show twice and his solo performances averaged 4 to 5 hours. Mylar also began his own record label, Mylar Records, and the publishing company, Baby Troid Music in 1982. Mylar Records produced tape cassette albums, beginning with Mylar’s “Folk Wave Music”. The album was recorded using a single track on master cassette tape format. In 1997, Mylar made available two of the first MP3 formatted songs on the world wide web, featuring “Sweet Alibi” and “Let’s Dance”, performed by the Barking Spiders. Mylar has won numerous songwriting and performance awards from ASCAP, West Coast Songwriters, Just Plain Folks, NARAS (Grammy) and was listed in Who’s Who in 2000.

Mylar learned music, beginning with piano at age 7. He was considered to be somewhat of a prodigy, having played Beethoven’s "Für Elise" on the piano after watching his mother, Carol, practice the piece a few times. He also became accomplished at the flute and trumpet, before teaching himself guitar at age 18.

As a child actor in many professional theater productions, Mylar received formal vocal training from director, Milton Lyon.

Discography: Folk Wave Music (1982) One World, One People (Single - 1986) The Barking Spiders (1998) Real Mylar (2002) Listen (2004)