Root Boy Slim (born Foster MacKenzie III) (born July 9, 1945 died June 8, 1993) Asheville, North Carolina; was an American singer-songwriter who attended Yale University, and afterward settled in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., gaining fame as the frontman for the band Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.