After graduation, he studied architecture while attending California Polytechnic State University, he also joined the staff of the campus radio station, first adopting the nickname "Weird Al" and spinning a mixture of novelty and new wave hits.
Yankovic quickly emerged as a staple of the Demento play list, recording a prodigious amount of tongue-in-cheek material throughout his high-school career. In 1973, Demento spoke at Yankovic's school, where the 13-year-old passed the radio host a demo tape of home recordings three years later, Demento played Yankovic's "Belvedere Cruising" - an accordion-driven pop song written about the family's Plymouth - on the air, and his career was launched. Demento show, drawing inspiration from the parodies of Allan Sherman as well as the musical comedy of Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, and Stan Freberg. In his early teens, he became an avid fan of the Dr. An only child, he began playing the accordion at age seven, following in the tradition of polka star Frank Yankovic (no relation).
In the world of novelty records - a genre noted for its extensive back catalog of flashes-in-the-pan and one-hit wonders - Yankovic was king, scoring smash after smash over the course of an enduring career that has found him topically mocking everything from new wave to gangsta rap.Īlfred Matthew Yankovic was born October 23, 1959, in Downey, California.
The foremost song parodist of the MTV era, "Weird Al" Yankovic has carried the torch of musical humor more proudly and more successfully than any performer since Allan Sherman.
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