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Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an United States|American singer, songwriter, and humanitarian who fought to end world hunger.
Chapin's first formal introduction to music was while singing in the Brooklyn Boys Choir. It was here that Harry met John Wallace|Big John Wallace, a tenor with a five-octave range, who would later become his bass player and background singer. He began performing with his brothers while a teenager, with their father occasionally joining them on drums.
Chapin graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1960, and was among the five inductees in the school's Alumni Hall Of Fame for the year 2000. He briefly attended the United States Air Force Academy and was then an intermittent student at Cornell University. He did not complete a degree.
He originally intended to be a documentary film|documentary film-maker, and directed ''Legendary Champions'' in 1968, which was nom... read all