Stan Ridgway (born on April 5, 1954), is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, and was the original lead singer of the band Wall of Voodoo. Wall of Voodoo The band was named Wall of Voodoo by Ridgway before their first gig in reference to a comment made by Joe Ramirez, a friend of Ridgway's, while recording and overdubbing a Kalamazoo Rhythm Ace drum machine, a gift to Ridgway by writer and iconic voice over artist Daws Butler, partner to Stan Freberg, voice of Yogi Bear and many other Hanna-Barbera characters. Berardi was listening to some of the Acme Soundtracks music Ridgway and Moreland had created in their studio. When Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine- and Farfisa-organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Berardi commented it sounded more like a "wall of voodoo", and the name stuck. Actually, for new listeners, the voodoo reference was a little misleading, as

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