David Bluefield (David Bluefield Pearlstein) was born and raised in Hollywood, California. His father, Leo Pearlstein is a successful advertising executive, author, and jazz drummer.[8]
David played in the rock band, "Potluck" in high school, who shared the stage with Traffic and Alice Cooper.[4]
In the early 1970s he was a band member (piano, keyboards, organ) in the music group, Kindred. They toured nationally and shared the stage with Three Dog Night and Badfinger, among others. They released two albums on Warner Bros., "Kindred" and "Next of Kin."[12][13][14]
In 1997, Bluefield played the keyboard in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the humans tried to communicate with the aliens in the spacecraft.[4]
In 1978, Bluefield's co-write, "Memories," recorded by Mary MacGregor, was selected as one of Billboard's "Top Single Picks".[15] His co-write, "What's the Use," recorded by Mary MacGregor, was the "International Grand Prix Winner" as well as winning the "Most Outstanding Performance Award" at the World Popular Song Festival in 1980.[1][2][16] Both singles were co-written with Marty Rodgers, whom Bluefield wrote and performed with for 10 years.[1]
Bluefield also toured with Mary Macgregor, playing keyboards and organ.[17]
He played keyboards and drum machine on Stevie Nicks' hit single, Stand Back in 1983.[18] In 1985, Bluefield played piano on The American Music Project (album), which included performances by Don McLean, Rita Coolidge, and Hoyt Axton, among others.[19]
In 1995, he released albums, "Clazzual Sax" and "Reclassified" which received favorable reviews.[20] In 1996, Bluefield released "Rolling Over the Classics." (album) and in 2020 released "Munchtime" (album).
Bluefield filmed his 103 year old musician father, (Leo Pearlstein) playing drums on "All of Me," (Bluefield played the piano) which went viral on YouTube and to date has received over 2,400,000 views.[21][22]
