Roger penzabene biography

      After a similar stint with Marvin Gaye, Grant became a valued, permanent part of the Temptations’ crew, his singular fretwork heard on some of the group’s most-celebrated recordings.

All this combined to make the musician something of a star in his neighbourhood.

Roger penzabene biography

“As a result,” he says, “Rodger’s mom bought him a guitar, and he started learning. When I came off the road, he would show me something, some new lick he’d learned. So we started working together like that, and coming up with songs.”

      “Listen To My Heart” was one of the duo’s first completed copyrights, by Grant’s account.

“We had written it as a kind of country and western song, but never got it published. We were very satisfied with it, but never got a chance to do a serious production on it. That would have been one of the first songs we did together at Motown.”

      Penzabene’s skill proved to be as a lyricist.