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 as one of the first bands to play at the legendary Boston Tea Party nightclub. During this period, they appeared on bills with The Velvet Underground, Howlin\' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison (who became close with Wolf while residing in nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts), John Lee Hooker and Sun Ra. .\n', '

While performing with the Hallucinations, Wolf was asked to join Boston\'s legendary radio station WBCN as their "all night" D.J. His show was very popular and he interviewed many of the great rock, blues and jazz artists that were touring through Boston in the late 1960s. \n', '

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