John Valby
- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Hysterically bawdy and outrageous comedic singer/songwriter/keyboardist
John Valby was born in 1945 in Rochester, New York. His father Richard
was an accomplished violinist. Valby attended McQuaid Jesuit High
School in Rochester; the Catholic nun instructors taught him how to
play piano. John majored in philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont
and served in the army during the Vietnam War. It was during his
college days that Valby first began writing raunchy compositions for
his fraternity brothers. In 1975 while touring in the Buffalo, New York
bar circuit John started singing and playing filthy songs instead of
the customary ragtime classics and pop standards he had previously been
doing. Valby's extensive repertoire of cheerfully lowbrow tunes
includes lots of hilariously crude, lewd and flat-out rude stuff about
sex and racial slurs as well as gut-busting nasty parodies of beloved
Christmas carols and topical numbers on current people and historic
events. Not surprisingly, his manager gave him the well-deserved name
Dr. Dirty. He has recorded and produced over thirty albums. Valby
appears as raucous bordello emcee Johnny Hotrocks in the amusing teen
sex comedy romp "Losin' It." John not only composed the score for the
short feature "Nancy Ray Smiggen's Family Tree and the Magic
Extravaganza," but also has recorded pop albums and produced albums for
other artists. In addition, Valby is an avid hockey player. He lives in
western New York State with his wife Anne and five children. John Valby
continues to tour and do his singularly sleazy, vulgar and uproarious
thing at various clubs and college campuses all over the East Coast in
America.