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Finding Darondo

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Justin Torres is a record nut, the kind who combs through stacks of dusty LPs looking for obscure gems. Torres told Chris Roose that he became obsessed with finding an R&B crooner named Daron “Darondo” Pulliam. Darondo wasn’t just a forgotten singer — the man had apparently disappeared.

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