Dennis Brockenborough is an African-American musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 from Delaware

Delaware

Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

. He played trombone

Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

 in the Mighty Mighty Bosstones for ten years and was an important contributor to that's band's brass instrument

Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...

-driven skacore sound.

Brockenborough was added to the Bosstones in 1990 just before the EP

Extended play

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 Where'd You Go? and the band's second album More Noise and Other Disturbances

More Noise and Other Disturbances

More Noise and Other Disturbances is an album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was released in 1992 by Taang! Records.-Track listing:#"Awfully Quiet" – 3:08#"Where'd You Go" – 3:26#"Dr...

, replacing original trombonist Tim Bridewell. He had, however, made a prior cameo appearance

Cameo appearance

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 on the "Devil's Night Out" music video

Music video

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. Brockenborough's mother was a music teacher at P.S. duPont Elementary School in Wilmington, and his brother was an All-State football player at Salesianum

Salesianum

Salesianum School is an independent Catholic secondary school for boys, located in Wilmington, Delaware. It is run independently within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. Salesianum was founded in 1903 and is operated by the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales...

 School in Wilmington. He graduated from Brandywine High School

Brandywine High School

Brandywine High School is a public secondary school located in Wilmington, Delaware. There were 1,157 students enrolled in the fall for the 2008-2009 school year.- Academics :Brandywine offers 17 Advanced Placement courses, and 22 Honors level courses....

, where he served as president of both his class and the band, in the suburbs of Wilmington.

While with the Bosstones, Brockenborough played a Yamaha

Yamaha (manufacturer)

is a multinational corporation and conglomerate based in Japan with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, electronics, motorcycles and power sports equipment.-History:...

 YSL-691 trombone with a Dennis Wick 4C mouthpiece

Mouthpiece (brass)

On brass instruments the mouthpiece is the part of the instrument which is placed upon the player's lips. The purpose of the mouthpiece is a resonator, which passes vibration from the lips to the column of air contained within the instrument, giving rise to the standing wave pattern of vibration in...

. He also sang backup on songs such as "Kinder Words" and "Simmer Down."

The 2000 album Pay Attention was his last with the band. In April of that year, Brockenborough left the Bosstones to perform with Chubby, a band he formed in which he sings lead and plays guitar

Guitar

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. He was replaced by former Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A.

Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A.

Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A. was a third wave ska band based out of New Haven, Connecticut. The band was formed by guitarist/vocalist Ron Ragona and drummer Dave Karcich in 1991. After a short breakup, Ragona and Karcich reformed the band with a new lineup. This lineup went on to record two albums...

 member Chris Rhodes

Chris Rhodes

Chris Rhodes is a trombone player from New Haven, Connecticut best known for playing trombone in several notable ska bands including Spring Heeled Jack USA, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Bim Skala Bim and The Toasters as well as Connecticut funk band, Boogie Chillin'...

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Chubby released its debut album Is It Time? in 2004.