“John “Papa” Gros is a bedrock New Orleans artist, a keyboardist, singer and songwriter who draws on funk, rhythm & blues and Americana songcraft; he also knows his way around the Mardi Gras music repertoire about as well as anyone.” – Keith Spera The New Orleans Advocate
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Piano vs Organ
Ebb And Flow
Music is a natural thing that happens in time. That's how we are as humans. There is an ebb and flow to everything that we do.
Soak In The Sounds
You kind of get the New Orleans sound by osmosis. You're at the Mardi Gras parade; you're 5 years old, you're catching beads. You're not paying attention to the sounds of the rhythm, but yet, they're there. When the marching bands are rolling through, the drums are...
Music Challenges
My dad played piano, so there was always a piano at the house. I was in a band in 4th grade and had friends back then that are still close friends now — we were all into music. We all took piano lessons. We all loved the same styles of music. We got into high school...
The Commitment
I call my Hammond B3 organ “The Commitment.” I bought it about a year (maybe two years) after I bought my first brand new car, a Honda Civic Hatchback. I could pack all my keyboards, speakers, really my entire rig in that car. My two daughters were young at the time...