Music Career
Cafaro is a native of Highland Park, Illinois, and is most well known as the front-man of Dwarves, a punk rock band. With the Dwarves he has written and produced 10 full length records over a span of 24 years. He has produced albums by Mondo Generator, The Dwarves, F.Y.P, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, Swingin' Utters and The God Awfuls.
Cafaro also released solo material as Blag Dahlia and under one of his other aliases, Earl Lee Grace. Blackgrass (1995), a 13-song LP of bluegrass songs, was released on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label using a backing band of real bluegrass musicians. Cafaro also started an acoustic duo with Nick Oliveri The Uncontrollables. Most recently he narrated the opening score on Last day of school by Autopsy Boys. The song also has an 80's style slasher flick music video.
In 1999, he sang "Doing the Sponge" in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "The Chaperone".
In 2004, Dahlia was involved in an altercation with Josh Homme at an L.A. club, after which Homme was arrested for assault. Upon pleading no contest, Homme was ordered to remain at least 100 yards (91.44 meters) away from Dahlia and the club, was sentenced to 3 years probation with community service, and was forced to enter a rehab program for 60 days.
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