The Mr. T Experience (also known as MTX) is one of the original Berkeley, California based pop-punk bands. The trio is fronted by Dr. Frank, who remains the only original member. Known for introducing just about every song with the line, "This is a song about a girl..." Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, United States. ... Pop punk is a term applied to a style of punk rock music that became commercially successfully during the late 1990s with the band Blink-182, based on earlier groundwork laid by groups such as The Offspring and Green Day. ... Dr. Frank (Portman) is the lead singer/songwriter for (and only original member of) The Mr. ...
T came from Chicago, Illinois, and was the eleventh of twelve children; he and his four sisters and seven brothers grew up in the city's housing projects.
T was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma cancer at the age of 43.
T was once reported to be earning around $80,000 a week for his role in The A-Team and getting $15,000 for personal appearances, but by the end of the 1990s, he was appearing only in the occasional commercial, largely because of health problems (in 1995, he was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma).
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