Jonathan "Sugerfoot" Moffett Drummer for Michael Jackson

The name came courtesy of a fellow bandmate and childhood friend, Curtis Verret, who hailed from Jonathan's hometown of New Orleans. "Man, I didn't like that name at all back then," Moffett laughs today. "Everyone else had what I thought were much cooler nicknames. I wanted to be called something like Ace or Duke."

Eventually Jonathan embraced the name comfortably, relocated to California in 1979, and went on to tour, record, or both with mega-stars Michael, Janet, and the entire Jackson family band, not to mention George Michael, Elton John, Madonna, Lionel Richie, Julian Lennon, Richard Marx, and Italian superstar Vasco Rossi - a r'sum' that truly made him 'drummer to the stars.'

Nowadays Moffett shares his touring time with Cameo, a group he's been associated with for twenty-five years. Between Cameo tours, Jonathan performs with smooth-jazz saxophonist Kenny G - all the while working on a solo CD and a book. "I'm always working on my own music," Moffett insists. "I have enough material for a few CDs. As for my book, I have what I call 'mindset materials.' So when you read my book, you'll learn who I was at any given moment, where my focus was in my mind and my heart. It covers the years from '77, '78 up until now."