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<p><em><strong>ORIGINAL GUITARIST of KLYMAXX</strong></em></p>
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<p>Cheryl started guitar lessons at the age of 11.&nbsp; She went onto learning music composition, orchestration &amp; arranging at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, then onto earning a degree in commercial music at Los Angeles City College.&nbsp;</p>
<p>While her then-brother-in-law, Hubert Laws was on tour with Latin Artist, Mongo Santamaria, she accidentally tuned her toy guitar to play a television theme song.&nbsp; When her sister heard it she suggested to their mother that Cheryl should take guitar lessons.&nbsp; From there Cheryl continued to broaden her studies in music classes all through out her school years.</p>
<p>After graduating college, Cheryl was playing in various local bands.&nbsp; When she was rehearsing at a studio in Hollywood, she was approached by some girls that said they had been getting together an all-female band called KLYMAXX (AFB) and wanted her to come and start rehearsing with them.&nbsp; Cheryl was apprehensive about the musicianship level as to which they might have been, but agreed to come and rehearse and check it out, anyway.&nbsp; The energy and fun that the girls were having pulled Cheryl into continuing to develop the band and with that they appointed her to be the musical director.</p>
<p>While working in a bank and rehearsing with the band, Cheryl was telling her supervisor about this all-female band called KLYMAXX she was in.&nbsp; Her supervisor, Linda Pate, told Cheryl that her uncle, Johnny Pate, was a producer for Artists like, Pebo Bryson and Minnie Riperton; and that if Cheryl would bring her the band's demo tape, she would give it to her uncle to see if he could help the band.&nbsp; When Johnny Pate listened to the music he was not impressed but happened to have lunch with an A&amp;R executive named, Margret Nash who worked at Solar Records and he gave it to her.&nbsp; She loved the idea of an all-female band and the musical direction she could hear in KLYMAXX's demo tape.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Margret took the tape and idea to Dick Griffey who was the president of Solar Records.&nbsp; He went to hear and see the band rehearse and signed the band immediately to a contract with Solar Records that would spawn 5 albums.&nbsp; Cheryl wrote the music to the demo song that got KLYMAXX the record deal and was the first single called,<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span>Other recording projects featuring Cheryl Cooley:</span></p>
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