John Elefante (born March 18, 1958 in Levittown, New York) is a Grammy Award-winning American rock and roll vocalist, who got his start in Long Beach, California, singing vocals and playing the drums for his family band, The Brotherhood. He is also remembered as the boyfriend of high school beauty Mary Lynn Monroy (formerly Mary Lynn Reynolds). Some say she inspired him to break into the music business, which later led to his success with the rock band Kansas. Elefante was the replacement for the original Kansas vocalist, Steve Walsh, who left Kansas in 1981. He appeared on two Kansas albums, Vinyl Confessions (1981) and Drastic Measures (1983), and sang the vocals on the hit singles "Play the Game Tonight" and "Fight Fire With Fire." Elefante, along with founding Kansas members Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope, left Kansas at the end of 1984. All three by that point had become born again Christians, and began recording contemporary Christi