Scatman John

John Paul Larkin spent decades as a working jazz pianist and vocalist before 1994, when he was in his early fifties and fused scat singing with dance music under the name Scatman John. The singles "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" and "Scatman's World" broke through in the United States and Europe, but Japan gave him his greatest success: his 1995 album Scatman's World sold over a million copies there. He recorded five albums between 1986 and 2001, and beyond the music he worked closely with stuttering organizations, founding the Scatland Foundation in 1996 to fund research and public educatio…