Daryl Hall Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2004, he and his partner John Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
• Participated in the "We Are the World" session and closed Philadelphia's Live Aid show
• His web series "Live from Daryl's House," based on the idea of him playing with friends and putting recordings of the results on the internet, won the 2010 Webby Award in the Variety Category
• Started playing music on the streets of Philadelphia where he began working with such 1960s soul singers as Smokey Robinson and the Temptations
• He and John Oates broke the record for number-one selling duo in music history in 1987
• Started a long-lasting musical partnership with John Oates, one of his childhood friends, in 1972, and the two went on to release six consecutive multi-platinum albums in the 1970s and 1980s
• One of his hobbies is restoring and preserving historic houses in the United States and England