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Andre Beeka is an American Singer, Songwriter Musician born in November of 1953. He started playing the Bass Guitar at the age of 14 by picking at the buttons on his short. He was inspired by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones but his passion shored when met James Brown in 1969 who let the young Andre sit in with him. He grew up in Hoboken New Jersey, home of Frank Sinatra and Baseball. By the age of sixteen he was playing bass guitar and singing in bands with Julian Hernandez and Julio Fernandez and came in second place on WCBS 's "BIG BREAK" radio show. Andre went on to tour the country with his band Madison who took the House Band place of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show in a small club in Union City, New Jersey. In 1970 he met Fuggie Kay Solerman who was the bass player for Mandrill and began attending their rehearsals in New York City. Fuggie became Andre's mentor and learned all of Mandrill"s songs. Fuggie died from an overdose of heroin and Andre found himself playing with the band until they relocated to Los Angeles California. In 1984 Andre got a phone call from Greg Allman who asked if he could borrow a bass head from him. Andre gave Greg his Acoustic 301 Amp and was assorted it would be returned shortly. Two months later Andre got another call from Greg who invited him to his home ion Anna Maria Island in Sarasota Florida. Andre spent a month with Greg and enjoyed working on on of Greg's biggest hits I'm No Angle. Greg asked Andre if he should record it and Andre said Its Gonna be A Hit!! Greg and Dan Tolor asked Andre to join the Greg Allman band but Andre loved City life and elected to go home. From 1985 till 2004 Andre enjoyed playing and singing with rock legions like Leon Rusell, Eric Clapton, Caarlos Santana and Kool and the Gang. Hip Hop artist Mase sampled one of Andre"s bass lines for his Hip Hop recording of "Feels So Ggod". Andre decided to release an all original Cd called Flavours of Life feacuring the song "Silly Dreamer".Andre has started a new project and will be using some of Dickie Betts"s musicians from Great Southern The cd will be a blend of Rock, Funk and Soul music with some blues thrown in for good measure.