Passage II HFOPOMALONAL Thas pasage is adapted from the antics "Hous hone a wedding by Laver wlicer Puchowal (coio by Laver Whos Puchowal). It was seen Kenary Holones's intene to become a wedding singer. The grandson of West Indian immiepants, Holmes was called is Gondon Heights, on Long Island, in what he calls "a small black coenamity 5 founded by like-minded thinkers." families of imon. graats and Southern blacks who, as Holmes says, "didn't come here to tell a rover and "and who hande" to their children without their own teen keeo of ambition. 10 We grew op in that kind of atmosphere," be says, "of positive dinging, of getting educated, whether or not you had a three. Like any American boy in the 1950 s and "60s, or was fascinated with popular music. He lisened to the 195 area's one rato sainian, which "mostly played Sinaera" is area's one rato sainian, which "mostly hinged Sinaera" sometimes in the evenings, with a coan player stuck into the fop of his portable ratios, he could help up in Kier's signal from WWK, a rhythm and blues station in a brougher's wop. "I have a lease a teenager, his brother a bougher he was a guitar and played it. "Is, it was a Sadale Satisfaction. I was adicted." While he was a son a wirroes, he was, he discovered, good to an axist at a wirroes, he was, he discovered, 1 was soogg-Sailstactioned by the Balking, He learned, there Lone Her's "As the Beatles, and "Shougher" by Anguar Waller and the All Sisar-and-famonged by the under Waller and the All Sisar-and-famonged a band, "We went out and sold it, "We be say." He could play those 90 tates and sald in light, "We get pretty popular on the school proms, he got a bigte, and he had, he had a very happy, and he had a great player. Sill, a career as a musician was not what he, or his family, had had in mind. Over the next few years, he says, "I had to celebrg the cocolon and to be a guitar player. I went to college not to the mast to be a guitar player. 1 went to celebrg the game, a book, and a projectorary he had a psychiatric degree. Along the wy, he cant nand playng aighects and partics. In his mid-10s, he visited his brother in Wathing. He was a mythoged to, Holmes, if a good place to be an athitious, carner-minded black man, hat it also had a mithority mast sene in agitablish and hotel has a patiotive mast scree in aiglutables and hotel has a mithority mast scree in aiglutables and hotel has a great-drive impulers. Thrying to work his waryone in the 4555-drivee impulers. They in work his waryone by the music, he played five and six sights a week in aseas, he played five smeet. He started a recerding studio called Sawod Shea and his wighee. He started a locaing ate, the muking of a bit song, bet he found so the pikings aline. The club secon, after a long while, began to wear on him, we will. Weatheg to resign himed to the life of a starving artist, when an agent approached him is the early "fob siob speciation in aodding and private 55 parties, Holmes decided to try it. It was a revelation, "I could make in one aight. the culfure of that I was doing." 60 leader: His preduction kills helped him a ment hand, and he called a sound that he is finally his country, his owners and a chaldse' music made him popular with audiences as well as Wilson Picket. 65 Because business eobs and flows with the seasons and the economy. Holmes has always a lime's a variety of sidelines, including a job driving a lime's prine of a variety of years to put his old steers about through a private high school college. These a day, at, gigs, he hands out a 70 stack of millions dollar's printed number of a private hingh mortgage breaker, then money ladder. Hemes uses as many as many as much as the reasons and so long as many. He accepts a quick turnover as a fact of 70 stack of millions dollar's afts printed or more aft. 70 stack of millions dollar's afts printed, with his image not atea. Hemes uses as many as a mask qua's muxicions and 1000 integers for weddings. He accepts a limes, a fact of a lime of a lime of a l