- Got into music as a way to battle his stuttering problem.
- Had a worldwide smash hit in 1995 with Scatman John: Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop) (1995).
- Louis Armstrong is said to be a huge inspiration for his music. Eventually he paid tribute to Armstrong in the song "Everybody Jam!".
- Scatman was known to be a Christian, and a believer in creationism.
- In 1996 Scatman published a song (and released a music video) called "Everybody Jam!" using bits of Louis Armstrong's own recorded speech, to seem like he was talking with Armstrong during the beginning of the song. He did it that way due to the impossibility of talking with Armstrong in person, since Armstrong died in 1971, twenty-five years before Scatman's song and music video were released.
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