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One of pop music’s most recognizable voices of the last three decades, Dennis DeYoung will perform tomorrow at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m.


DeYoung is on the road in support of his latest recording, a live effort, entitled “The Music of Styx Live With Symphony Orchestra.” For Saturday’s performance singer, songwriter, guitarist and New Jersey native Glen Burtnik will join DeYoung on tour for the first time since 1991. Together they will perform songs they wrote from the Edge of the Century” album.

Burtnik is a respected solo artist with five albums to his credit plus an accomplished songwriter penning songs for other top artists including Patty Smyth and Don Henley who took “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough” to #2 on the pop charts.

DeYoung is of course the former lead vocalist of the band Styx and the force behind such radio staples as “Lady,” “Grand Illusion,” “Mr. Roboto” and “Come Sail Away.” His association with Styx is now a thing of the past and DeYoung’s concerts are filled with his own talented solo work.

But fans should not fret, he’ll definitely be playing the hits that put the singer and his band on the map.

Born in Chicago, Ill., in 1947, DeYoung started playing music at 16 in a small three-piece combo. By 1970 he had met up with what would turn out to be the rest of the original members of Styx.

While the original Styx members played music in the 1960’s under a different name it was their debut recording for Wooden Records in 1972 that really launched their career. DeYoung plays keyboards which only begins to tell the story of the variety of pianos, organs and synthesizers he has played over his career.

While with Styx, DeYoung was well known for his extended solos on his Oberheim synthesizer which was the core of Styx’ sound.

Recording on his own as early as 1984, DeYoung produced four impressive solo albums, “Desert Moon,” “Back To The World” and “Boomchild” before reuniting briefly with his former bandmates in 1990. DeYoung also recorded his fourth solo album, “10 On Broadway,” which celebrated the influence of such composers as George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice.

Recent DeYoung concert playlists have included “Lady,” “Babe,” “Light Up,” “Come Sail Away,” and “Mr. Roboto.”


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