Eric Lowen

Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter/guitarist Eric Lowen spent the majority of his profession within a composing and performing relationship with Dan Navarro. He was created David Eric Lowen Oct 23, 1951, in Utica, NY, the son of the Baptist minister dad and a mom who was simply a previous music instructor. He was raised in Utica, Ridgewood, NJ, and Greece, NY, as his dad periodically transformed congregations. Before the proceed to Greece, NY, when he is at the ninth quality, his parents provided him a electric guitar for Xmas, and he shortly learned to try out it. He is at bands in senior high school, and while participating in Brockport State University, he shaped a performing duo with another aspiring performer, Christine Lavin, that lasted a season. He graduated using a level in English books and kept menial careers until Lavin helped him protected are a backup musician to Bert Sommer. For the reason that capability, he relocated to LA and got his 1st documenting credit on Sommer’s 1977 self-titled LP for Capitol Information. After departing Sommer, he got employment as a performing waiter inside a cafe in Western Hollywood, and there fulfilled Navarro, whom he previously changed when Navarro proceeded to go off on a brief tour burning Severin Browne. Lowen and Navarro became close friends, and they performed in an area music group, Bon Mot. In addition they began composing songs collectively and gained acknowledgement when Pat Benatar presented their structure “We Belong” (which Lowen was defined as David Lowen) on her behalf recording Tropico, released on November 24, 1984. The monitor was released as an individual that peaked at amount five in the Billboard Scorching 100 on January 5, 1985. Lowen and Navarro composed music for the movies Law enforcement Academy 4: People on Patrol (1987; “It is time to Move”) and Informal Sex? (1988; “[She’s A] Outrageous Card”), plus they had been earned as writers in the Bangles’ third record, Everything, released in Oct 1988, co-writing “Something to trust In” with David White as well as the group’s Michael Steele, and “I’ll Established You Totally free” with White as well as the group’s Susanna Hoffs; the record reached the very best 20 and proceeded to go platinum. (Another tune by Hoffs, Lowen, and Navarro, “Everything I NEEDED,” eventually resulted in in the Bangles’ platinum-selling Greatest Strikes LP in-may 1990.) Aside from Navarro, Lowen and Peter Peterkin co-wrote the tune “THE NEXT TIME,” which made an appearance in the Four Tops’ record Indestructible, released in Sept 1988. In the wake from the achievement of “We Belong,” Lowen acquired formed the music group 20 Times, that he and Navarro composed songs. But with the past due ’80s, that they had decided to type their personal duo. They started carrying out as Lowen & Navarro having a residency in the Breakaway in Venice, California, in January 1988. Performing in two-part tranquility and associated themselves on acoustic guitars, these were considered area of the “nu-folk” motion of that time period. They gave a display performance at Golf club Lingerie in LA on January 31, 1989. The concert was documented and released in 1996 as Live Cable. In the mean time, the duo was authorized to the startup label Chameleon Information for his or her debut recording, Walking on the Wire, released on, may 12, 1990. The monitor “What I Make Myself Believe” was presented in the 1991 film Blue Desert, as well as the album’s last monitor was “Hammerhead Shark,” compiled by Lowen and Preston Sturges, that was included in David Lee Roth on his gold-selling recording JUST A LITTLE Ain’t Enough in January 1991. Regrettably, Chameleon Information underwent a restructuring in 1991, falling almost all its serves, including Lowen & Navarro. They continuing to perform, nevertheless, and they acquired another songwriting achievement if they co-wrote “You don’t need to GO BACK HOME Tonight” using the Triplets, Diana, Sylvia, and Vicky Villegas, whose documenting of the melody peaked in the very best 20 in-may 1991. The Triplets documented for Mercury Information, which helped result in a new offer for Lowen & Navarro in the Mercury imprint Parachute Information, a custom made label specifically produced to record adult pop performers. Parachute released their second recording, Broken Moon, on Oct 20, 1993, and their third, Pendulum, on August 30, 1995. (In the mean time, “Merely to Observe You” from Broken Moon was presented in the 1994 film Color of Night time.) After that, Parachute, as well, discontinued operations. Developing their personal label, Crimson Hen Information, Lowen & Navarro released Live Wire, after that authorized to the Atlanta, Georgia-based self-employed Intersound Information, which reissued that recording and adopted on August 25, 1998, using the duo’s 4th studio recording, Scratch at the entranceway. Their misfortune with record businesses continued, however, plus they had been soon with out a label once again, although these were accumulating a pursuing through touring in folk night clubs with folk festivals throughout the U.S. On August 21, 2001, Artemis Information released the self-titled record by Jacob Teen, to which Lowen and Navarro added heavily, co-writing many music, playing, and performing. They resurrected Crimson Hen using the discharge of Live Radio on Feb 21, 2002, a assortment of their shows over the L.A. radio present FolkScene through the ’90s. Their vacation record At Longer Last… Christmas made an appearance on November 1, 2002. On Feb 8, 2003, they opened up for Don Conoscenti at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, Georgia, as well as the display was captured for the recording 3 for the street: Live! at Eddie’s Attic, released by Mad Raine later on in 2003. On March 17, 2004, as Lowen & Navarro done their next studio room recording (financed by efforts from enthusiasts), Lowen was identified as having Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (aka ALS and Lou Gehrig’s Disease), the uncommon, incurable, essentially untreatable disease that steadily causes paralysis and loss of life. Notwithstanding the analysis, the duo finished the recording On a regular basis in the Globe, and released it on Sept 21, 2004. Conscious that point was today against them, they following recorded an record of other’s music, Hogging the Addresses (Oct 16, 2006), after that set up a live Dvd movie, Carry on Jointly, released by AIX Entertainment on July 3, 2007, and lastly issued another studio room record of original materials, Understanding how to Fall (co-billed to longtime sideman Phil Parlapiano) on Dec 2, 2008. Because of the development of Lowen’s disease, Lowen & Navarro provided their last live show on June 6, 2009, in Alexandria, Virginia. On January 5, 2010, AIX released the Compact disc Keep carefully the Light Alive: Celebrating the Music of Lowen & Navarro, a charity recording benefitting ALS companies and offering the duo’s tracks as performed by Jackson Browne, John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting with each other, Keb’ Mo’, the Bangles, while others. The duo’s 12th annual luxury cruise, a weeklong jaunt along the Mexican coastline, happened January 3-10, 2010. Eric Lowen passed away of problems from ALS on March 23, 2012 in LA; he was 60 years older.