Peter Wolf

Peter Wolf (born Peter Blankfield, March 7, 1946) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983 and for a successful solo career with writing partner Will Jennings.\n', '

Peter Wolf was born in The Bronx. He was accepted at the prestigious High School of Music & Art, located in west Harlem near the famed Apollo Theater. He often attended the Apollo seeing many of the great soul, rhythm & blues and gospel artists that had an enormous influence on him. He moved to Boston when he received a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where he studied painting. His first roommate was film director David Lynch. In 1964, Wolf and fellow art students Paul Shapiro, Doug Slade, Joe Clark, and Stephen Jo Bladd formed a group called The Hallucinations. They performed at nightclubs in the famed Combat Zone and developed a large following a…