ANGEL Keyboardist Invests In Hard Rock Biloxi
January 24, 2004Greg Giuffria, the keyboardist for the 1970s hard rock band ANGEL, is one of the investors in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi, according to SunHerald.com. Construction of the $235 million resort is set to begin next week. Roy Anderson Corp., which will build the casino, already has trailers on the property.
For Giuffria, a Gulfport native, the start of construction is the payoff of a seven-year effort to bring a Hard Rock casino to the Coast. Giuffria's connections with the Coast and his musical background (his self-named rock band had a couple of hits in the mid-1980s) made the Hard Rock a natural fit for him.
"There were a lot of different situations, but I stuck with the project over the years," Giuffria said during an interview Friday afternoon on "The Sun Herald Business Hour on WTNI-1640 AM. "But now, we've put together a good team." [Read more]
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