RODGER PENZABENE – LYRICIST BEHIND "I WISH IT WOULD RAIN" | THE UNTOLD PAINFUL STORY | DEA

Rodger Penzabainee was born in 1945 in northwest Detroit near 8 mile, in Michigan to parents John Penzabainee, a steward, and Anna Cindy, a stay-at-home mother. He was of Sicilian and Irish descent and not African-American as it has been assumed by some. It is said that as a kid, he was the jovial, the extroverted type, and always good at everything. Whenever he met his cousins over at their maternal grandparents in Brockway Pennsylvania during the holidays, he was the clear standout amongst them. No one could dance like him, no one could play the piano like him despite him never taking any piano lessons. And it’s because he was a Detroiter, the vibrant city full of life.
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