Gabriel Roth is the bass player

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, bandleader

Bandleader

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, primary songwriter

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 and producer

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 of the band Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

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. He is also a co-founder of the Daptone Records

Daptone Records

Daptone Records is a funk and soul independent record label formed by Gabriel Roth and Neal Sugarman and based in Brooklyn, New York.After the demise of the Desco label Gabriel Roth teamed up with Neal Sugarman to create a new label, Daptone Records...

 label.

Roth grew up in Riverside, California

Riverside, California

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. Roth's parents are lawyers who have worked on civil rights and discrimination cases. After moving to New York City

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 to attend New York University

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 in the early 1990s, he launched the record label

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, Desco Records, with record collector/partner Phillipe Lehman. Roth also played, recorded, and wrote material for Antibalas. After Desco folded, Roth formed Daptone Records with Dap-Kings saxophonist Neal Sugarman.

Roth is an outspoken proponent for analog recording

Analog recording

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. Roth's signature glasses he wears on stage and in interviews are the result of a car accident which left his eyeballs lacerated, blinding him for 10 days.

External links

• Gabriel Roth interviewed at the Red Bull Music Academy
  Red Bull Music Academy
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  , London, February 2010.