FRANK
O'PEKA
Keyboard [used to be a singer, too -- waiting for that "perfect" song to sing with Azuar]
Date of Birth: 8 November 1953
Home Town: Grew up in Forest City, a small town (pop. 2,500) in northeastern Pennsylvania -- a former coal-mining town with at least ten churches and ten bars.
Day Job: Some of my titles over the past (25) years: Industrial Engineer, Operations Manager, Project Manager, Salesperson, Trainer. Currently employed as a Safety Director at a large distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related equipment.
Musical
Background: Church organist and r&r during high school. Keyboard
player (with Midnight Sun, one single... that is, a small black
piece of black plastic with little grooves representing a song on each
side) through high school and college. Music paid for my rent although the
150-mile commute from West Philadelphia to Forest City every weekend
during my Drexel University years was grueling. Music playing preferences:
Blues, Brazilian, ...