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For more than 30 years The Maxx has been spreading the spirit and energy of its music all over the world. Since it's founding in the early 1980's at Atlanta's Therrell High School and Northside School For The Performing Arts the band has performed at more than three thousand events, for more than one million people on four continents. Today, founding members Rod Whittaker (bass/keyboards/vocals), Leroy "Roc" Lovelace (sax/vocals), Steven Rollins (guitar/vocals) and former active member now manager Tony Cooper are joined by more recent arrivals, Rainy Middleton (vocals), Darnell Springer (trumpet/keyboards/vocals) and Jimmy Calhoun (drummer) on a mission to carry they're innovative and authentic live performances to an even wider audience.
The band spent its first two years playing nightclubs, high school dances, college parties, amusement parks and concerts in and around Atlanta but quickly expanded their horizons up the East Coast and into Canada while it's members where still in high school. They made weekend trips to surrounding states, toured more extensively during the summer and appeared in concert with Kool & The Gang, The Commodores, Chubby Checker, Archie Bell & The Drells, Cheap Trick and James Brown. This early experience set the foundation for excellence that has been the band's calling card throughout its career.
In 1983 after most of the members had finished high school and were now in college at Georgia State University, the band started to narrow it's focus to the college market. For the next seven years they played at hundreds of colleges and college clubs in the Southeast, Midwest, South Central and Northeastern United States and were nominated for Campus Entertainer of the year four years in a row by the National Association for Campus Activities. During this time the band purchased a small studio and started writing, recording and performing their own music. As their original music became more and more popular with their live audience, record companies also began to take note. The band was courted by some of the biggest companies in the industry, but as the R&B side of the music industry went away from bands and more towards rap acts and solo artists the group decided to go in another direction and in 1990 another important chapter in the band's life began.
That year the band returned from a summer tour of Japan with a new direction. After spending the first ten years of their career playing almost exclusively to college audiences the band was ready for a new challenge and in the Winter of 1991 they began a journey that has take them to a new and ever expanding audience.
They've performed for: The United Way Children's Miracle Network American Heart Association American Cancer Society American Diabetes Association American Red Cross Washington Wizards - NBA Hendrick Motor Sports - NASCAR NFL Players Association Carolina Hurricanes - NHL Family Circle Cup - USTA United States Tennis Association Atlanta Steeple Chase Carolina Panthers - NFL New Orleans Hornets - NFL Atlanta Hawks - NBA Kraft Foods Delta Airlines General Electric Microsoft Coca Cola Company Pepsi Glaxo Smith Kline - London US Chamber Of Commerce Bayside - Tokyo, Japan Premier Cruise Lines Countless country clubs, Fairs, Festivals, Conventions, Casinos, Amusement Parks, Resorts, and Weddings.
Songlist:
50 Cent |
In Da' Club |
Adele |
Rolling In The Deep |
Al Green |
Lets Stay Together |
Allison Kraus |
When You Say Nothing |
Andy Williams |
Moon River |
Bee Gees |
Staying Alive |
Ben E. King |
Stand By Me |
Beyonce' |
Crazy In Love |
Bill Withers |
Lovely Day |
Black Eyed Peas |
I Got A Feeling Lets Get It Started Where Is the Love |
Bob Marley |
Is This Love |
Britney Spears |
Til The World Ends |
Brooks and Dunn |
Boot Skootin' Boogie |
Cameo |
Word Up |
Chairman Of The Board |
Carolina Girls Give Me Just A Little More Time |
Chaka Kahn |
I’m Every Woman |
Chic |
Good Times |
Christopher Cross |
Sailing |
Chuck Berry |
Johnny B Goode |
Dave Brubeck |
Girl From Ipanema Take Five |
Diana Ross |
I'm Coming Out |
Dionne Warwick |
Walk On By |
Duke Ellington |
Satin Doll Take The A Train |
Earth Wind & Fire |
September |
Ella Fitzgerald |
Misty |
Elvis Presley |
Can’t Help Fallin In Love |
Fontella Bass |
Rescue Me |
Four Seasons |
Oh What A Night (December 1963) |
Four Tops |
Can't Help Myself |
Frank Sinatra |
Fly Me To The Moon The Way You Look Tonight |
Frankie Valli |
Too Good To Be True |
Gladys Knight & The Pips |
Midnight Train to Georgia |
Gloria Gayner |
I Will Survive |
Gnarls Barkley |
Crazy |
Harry Connick, Jr |
It Had To Be You |
Ides Of March |
Vehicle |
James Taylor |
How Sweet It Is |
Joey Dee & The Starliters |
Peppermint Twist |
Journey |
Don't Stop Believing |
Justin Timberlake |
Sexy Back |
Katie Perry |
Firework |
KC & The Sunshine Band |
Boogie Shoes Get Down Tonight That’s The Way I Like it |
Kool & The Gang |
Celebration Get Down On It Ladies Night |
Lady Gaga |
Just Dance |
Little Eva |
The Locomotion |
Lloyd Williams |
Shama Lama Ding Dong |
Louie Armstrong |
What A Wonderful World |
Lynyrd Skynyrd |
Sweet Home Alabama |
Marsha Griffin |
Electric Slide |
Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell |
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You You're All I Need To Get By |
Mary J. Blige |
Just Fine |
McFadden & Whitehead |
Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now |
Michael Jackson |
Rock With You |
Mr. C |
Cha Cha Slide |
Nelly |
Hot In Here Ride Wit’ Me (Must Be The Money) |
Nelly Furtado |
Promiscuous Girl |
Notorious B.I.G |
Mo Money Mo Problems |
Otis Day and the Knights |
Shout |
Otis Redding |
Dock Of The Bay |
Outkast |
Hey Ya The Way You Move |
Ray Charles |
Georgia On My Mind |
Ready For The World |
Oh Sheila |
Rihanna |
Don't Stop The Music Umbrella |
Rod Stewart |
Have I Told You Lately |
Roy Orbison |
Pretty Woman |
Sam and Dave |
Soul Man |
Shaggy |
Angel |
Shania Twain |
Man, I Feel Like A Woman You're Still The One |
Shop Boys |
Party Like A Rockstar |
Snoop Dog |
Sensual Seduction |
Soulja Boy |
Crank That Soulja Boy |
Spiral Staircase |
More Today Than Yesterday |
Standard |
All The Way My Funny Valentine Straighten Up and Fly Right |
Stevie Wonder |
Isn't She Lovely You Are The Sunshine Of My Life |
Taio Cruz |
Dynamite |
Taste Of Honey |
Boogie Oogie Oogie |
The Commodores |
Brick House |
The Drifters |
Under The Boardwalk You’re More Than A Number (In My Little Red Book) |
The Embers |
I Love Beach Music |
The Foundations |
Build Me Up Buttercup |
The Platters |
With This Ring |
The Trammps |
Disco Inferno Hold Back The Night |
The Tymes |
Ms. Grace |
Tina Turner |
Proud Mary |
Traditional |
Hava Nagila |
V. I. C. |
Wobble |
Van McCoy |
The Hustle |
Van Morrison |
Brown Eyed Girl Crazy Love |
Wilson Pickett |
Mustang Sally |