Career
Con chi science?" and "Un corpo e un"anima". Wess also was a singer and played bass guitar for the funk-soul band Wess & The Airedales in the 1960s and early 1970s. Originally from North Carolina, Wess moved to Italy in the 1960s in pursuit of a musical career.
Wess died in New York during his United States tour when a breathing crisis led to his death.
He was the father of United Kingdom-based R"n"B singer Romina Johnson, who often accompanied him as a backing singer.