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William Wright alias, artist name Topazz, was born in Nashville Tennessee, a 4th of February as the 8th of 9 brothers and sisters. Williams love for music shows at the young age of 13 when William and 4 other friends, he grew up with , started a group call the junior temptations. At that time he used to study the voices of Melvin Franklin, Larry Gram, Issec Hayes, Lou Rawels and Barry White. This music experience was short since William was very sportive. He played football, baseball, and basketball. Because of his height (2 meters) he stood out in basketball....

People in the West blame weird moods on a string of things: the wind (those Santa Anas), the end (of the country), the moon (crescent is cursed), even the movies. But it doesn’t matter which is right/real, because the effect is the same, freaked souls in a trapped environment, lotuses floating on a lake littered with bodies. Topaz Rags is a new late night downer trio devoted to mapping these sour times and long goodbyes, and California Ash is their 2-sided elegy for the Golden State’s darkest ghosts, the rich hills full of fire, the day after the kool-aid. Back-alley...

There are five bands whom share the name Topaz: 1) A Jazz-Funk group from Texas, fronted by Topaz McGarrigle 2) An Electronic Dream/Chillwave artist from Chicago 3) A female Hip Hop artist from New Zealand 4) A Chiptune artist. 5) An AOR band from Chicago 1) Topaz (Texas) Topaz is a Jazz-Funk group from Texas. Topaz McGarrigle got his start playing saxophone on the streets of downtown Austin, TX. Topaz continued his musical aspriations in London during high school in the height of the acid-jazz scene. Topaz the moved to Washington D.C. and studied Jazz at The Duke Ellington School...