Claim: Scatman John Larkin was born in California and moved to Germany when he was 48 to better his career and he learned jazz and started singing scat with hip hop effects.
Evidence: Larkin was born in El Monte, California. John Paul Larkin (March 13, 1942 – December 3, 1999), known professionally as Scatman John was an American musician and singer who created a fusion of scat singing and dance music, best known for his 1995 hits "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" and "Scatman's World". To advance his career in 1990, Larkin moved to Berlin, Germany. Once there, he discovered an appreciative jazz culture and started playing jazz gigs. Soon after, his agent Manfred Zähringer from Iceberg Records (Denmark) thought of combining scat singing with modern dance music and hip hop effects.