Man Parrish

His premier release was "Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)" issued in 1982, which was featured in the film Shaun of the Dead, the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which sold millions of copies, and was sampled in Sway & King Tech's 1991 song "Follow 4 Now" from their second album "Concrete Jungle."

He eventually signed with Elektra Records via David Bowie’s Manager Tony DeFries who also managed his music career, but was dropped from the label in 1984 when they decided not to release the album he had recorded for them. Elektra signed him for dance music, his manager wanted him to create pop-rock.

In 2018, three pieces of his musical works were accepted into the prestigious Museum Of Modern Art’s MoMA permanent collection in New York City. Film scores for Behive, (a modern dance film), The Jones’s, (an indie art film) and his 1983 Music video for his well known song Hip Hop Be Bop.

In 2018, he also did a sound performance - installation for MoMA PS1 titled The Box, asking the question: Is Sound Considered Art?

In 2010s, Parrish was in negotiations with Pink Biscuit Records and was scheduled to release a record via Southern Fried Records, the label owned by Fatboy Slim. Parrish started his own label instead.

From 2000 to 2015, he created the longest running underground New York City club party, at the infamous gay CockBar.

For six years, from 1994 to 2000 he was road manager for the famed disco band Village People. He traveled the world with them, produced music for their live show and managed their day to day business on the road.

Manuel Joseph "Man" Parrish (born May 6, 1958) is an American composer, songwriter, vocalist and producer. He, along with artists such as Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, John Robie, Jellybean Benitez, Lotti Golden, Richard Scher and Aldo Marin, helped create and define electro in the early 1980s.