ANGEL Keyboardist Invests In Hard Rock Biloxi

January 24, 2004

Greg 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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