User:Kaarina ford

Jimmy Vargas and the Black Dahlias

Jimmy Vargas, lead singer of jazz noir band Black Dahlias, so named after illfamed Hollywood starlet Elizabeth Short whose body was found severed in downtown Los Angeles January 1947.

Born 1958, July 8th London

Purportedly the grand nephew of ill famed occult wizard Aleister Crowley.

Inheriting his uncles genes Vargas was forced to undergo an exorcism in at the age of seven when he was heard swearing in tongues at a good friday mass at his local catholic church in Shepherds Bush.

Dropping out of first year of university, Vargas went onto work as a doorman in one of the many gentlemans clubs in the London red lite area of Soho in the early eighties.

It was there he formed his first band the Black Mariahs.

The band broke up after the heroin overdose of Vargas' writing partner Sean Branagan.

To keep his hand in the music business, Vargas moved in to managing rockabilly and swing bands, while the retro jive scene was at it's peak.

in 1982, Vargas married a local Soho striopper, but the marriage lasted six months and was annullled a year later.

In the early 90s Jimmy Vargas had migrated to the West Coast of the United States, forming his first incarnation of the BLACK DAHLIAS.

The band enjoying cult status with their forties jazz and latin with the neo hipster crowd in the Bay area, recording four albums.

In 1993, Vargas was held as a suspect in the death of his then muse, argentinian stripper and sorceress Louisa Rodriguez, after a joint transnurtation ceremony went wrong in a downtown Los Angeles Hotel Room.

Released after bail was supplied by his management, Vargas was cleared of any nefarious behaviour, when an autopsy revealed that Ms. Rodriguez had died of a heart attack.

In 1998, Vargas was appointed high priest to west coast gnostic cabal "he Church of God Prophecy", a title he still enjoys.

Vargas continues to work over three continents as both actor singer and pop writer.

At present a non authorised documentary called Noir Halo is being shot covering this elusive figure, whose links with both the U.S. Satanic cabals and Opus Dei, has earned him the name as the crooning diablo