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Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame, 1986
Born and raised here: Remo Belli was born in Mishawaka on 22 June 1927 and grew up here — his own words, carried in the People record, put his formation on these streets — before the Navy, Los Angeles, the Drum City shop and the Mylar drumhead that bears his company's name. The Percussive Arts Society, the drummers' own international society, counts its Hall of Fame as its highest honour, and its published inductee list carries "1986 — Remo Belli." Belli stood in the society from its first hour: he was one of the fourteen originating members named in the first PAS Bulletin of 1961, a founder honoured again, twenty-five years on, with the hall. He died on 25 April 2016. The invention and the company are the Businesses and People records'; the enshrinement — a Mishawaka native in his profession's hall, in the decade his drumhead had already become the world's standard — is this section's.
Sources:
- Percussive Arts Society — the society's Hall of Fame inductee list as published in its PASIC 2007 release (Belli, 1986), the society's own description of the hall as its highest honour, and its record of the fourteen originating members of 1961.
- The People record, Notable People — Belli born 22 June 1927 in Mishawaka and raised here, from his own account; his death of 25 April 2016.