Photographer: Marilyn Bond

Biography:
 Marilyn Bond has been involved in the music industry since she was a teenager in the 1950's in Detroit, Michigan. Although she insisted she wasn’t a photographer, but rather a promoter of the music who happened to have a camera, her cherished photographs of musicians tell a different story. She was a contributing writer and photographer for Teen Life Newspaper, 16 Magazine, Juke Box Stars, and CREEM. She was heavily involved in promotions, managing artists, and spinning as a DJ by age eighteen. Her historical collection includes photographs of the Big Bopper, Bobby Darin, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pat Boone, and Chuck Berry. She later moved to New York to pursue her career and won a scholarship to the Lane Theatre Workshop. Upon returning to the Midwest after school, she started her own music label, Legends of Music, and continued to work as a promoter and manager in the music industry. Besides being published in countless magazines and album covers, Marilyn Bond’s photographs also appear in the book, Birth of the Detroit Sound: 1940-1964, which she coauthored in 2002.

Genres Photographed: Vocal, Country, Other, Rock, R&B

Years Active: 1955 to 1964

Favorite Bands: Bobby Darin, Elvis, Pat Boone, Jamie Coe, Buddy Holly

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