Vocalist/songwriter and manufacturer extraordinaire John Elefante start his musical profession in 1981. After business lead vocalist Steve Walsh still left the rock and roll group Kansas, Elefante auditioned for the location and was selected. Furthermore to landing the work, he saw all of his demonstration tape music make the band’s …

Rachel Farris was using piano, singing, and composing her own music before turning 13. She majored in music while in university and produced her very own group, featuring music she wrote, but the task was nixed when she noticed that it included too much bargain. Determined to visit it only, …

Guitarist/vocalist Dave Amato offers served as an associate of two of market rock’s most instantly recognizable titles, Ted Nugent and REO Speedwagon, furthermore to performing on countless additional recordings by likewise styled artists. Created and elevated in Boston, MA (day unfamiliar), Amato shaped his first regional group when he was …

Fusing the complexity of British prog rock and roll with an American heartland appear representative of their name, Kansas had been being among the most popular rings from the late ’70s, with a lot of their strikes getting staples of AOR radio playlists. Produced in Topeka in 1970, the founding …

Hailing in the Southern California area, the Ron Kobayashi Trio includes pianist/leader Kobayashi, bassist Baba Elefante, and drummer Steve Dixon. Kobayashi provides performed with famous brands Mel Tormé, the Modernaires, and Tim Weisberg, amongst others, and it is a single recording musician in his very own befitting Casierra Information. Elefante …

Kerry Livgren was among the founding associates and primary authors for the ’70s supergroup Kansas. Having developed hearing the functions of traditional composers (notably the Romantics such as for example Liszt and Wagner), Livgren’s songwriting technique provides generally tended toward orchestration — with an hearing for the majestic or the …

Although they hardly ever achieved just as much notoriety as their Orange County neighbors Stryper, Los Angeles’ Barren Cross were one of the best-known Christian (or “white”) steel bands to emerge within the 1980s. Produced in past due 1983 by vocalist/guitarist Mike Lee, guitarist Ray Parris, bassist Jim LaVerde, and …