Lowen & Navarro

The Los Angeles-based writing and performing duo of singer/songwriter/guitarists Eric Lowen (born October 23, 1951; passed away March 23, 2012) and Dan Navarro (given birth to Sept 14, 1952) was created in 1987, even though two met ten years earlier. These were both performing waiters inside a cafe in Western Hollywood in 1978; they had been members of an area music group, Bon Mot, and started writing songs collectively. They first obtained acknowledgement when Pat Benatar presented their track “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 quantity five within the Billboard Warm 100 on January 5, 1985. Lowen & Navarro published tunes for the movies Law enforcement Academy 4: Residents on Patrol (1987; “It is time to Move”) and Informal Sex? (1988; “[She’s A] Crazy Card”), plus they had been earned as writers around the Bangles’ third recording, 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 Arranged You Totally free” with White as well as the group’s Susanna Hoffs; the recording reached the very best 20 and proceeded to go platinum. (Another track by Hoffs and Lowen & Navarro, “Everything I NEEDED,” eventually resulted in around the Bangles’ platinum-selling Greatest Strikes LP in-may 1990.) Within the wake from the achievement of “We Belong,” Lowen had created the music group 20 Times, that he and Navarro also wrote tunes. But from the past due ’80s, that they had decided to carry out together like a duo. After four looks in 1987 in a Sunset Remove “No-Amp Night time,” they started appearing frequently 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, Strolling on a Wire, released on, may 12, 1990. The monitor “What I Make Myself Believe” was presented within 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 record JUST A LITTLE Ain’t Enough in January 1991. However, 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 tune 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 record, Broken Moon, on Oct 20, 1993, and their third, Pendulum, on August 30, 1995. (On the other hand, “Merely to Observe You” from Broken Moon was presented within the 1994 film Color of Night time.) After that, Parachute, as well, discontinued operations. Developing their very own 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 round the U.S. On August 21, 2001, Artemis Information released the self-titled recording by Jacob Adolescent, to which Lowen & Navarro experienced contributed greatly, co-writing several tunes, playing, and performing. They resurrected Crimson Hen using the discharge of Live Radio on Feb 21, 2002, a assortment of their shows in 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 present was captured for the record 3 for the street: Live! at Eddie’s Attic, released by Mad Raine afterwards in 2003. On March 17, 2004, as Lowen & Navarro had been focusing on their following studio record (financed by efforts from their supporters), Lowen was identified as having Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (aka ALS and Lou Gehrig’s Disease), the uncommon, incurable, essentially untreatable disease that gradually results in paralysis and loss of life. Notwithstanding the medical diagnosis, the duo finished the record, On a regular basis on earth, and released it on Sept 21, 2004. Conscious that point was today against them, they following recorded an recording of other’s tunes, Hogging the Addresses (Oct 16, 2006), after that put together a live Dvd and blu-ray, Carry on Collectively, released by AIX Entertainment on July 3, 2007, and lastly issued another studio room recording 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 offered 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 tunes as performed by Jackson Browne, John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting with each other, Keb’ Mo’, the Bangles, among others. The duo’s 12th annual luxury cruise, a weeklong jaunt across 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 yrs . old.