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Kerry Livgren
Livgren in a 1976 promotional photo for Kansas
Background information
Birth name
Kerry Allen Livgren
Born
(1949-09-18) September 18, 1949 (age 74) Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
Genres
Progressive Rock, Rock
Occupation(s)
Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)
Guitar, keyboards
Years active
1974–present
Website
numavox.com
Musical artist
Kerry Allen Livgren (born September 18, 1949) is an American musician, best known as one of the founding members and primary songwriters for the American rock band Kansas.
Kerry Livgren, raised in Topeka, Kansas, developed an early interest in music and songwriting. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he played in various bands, exploring spiritual themes in his lyrics. Livgren formed bands such as the Gimlets, Saratoga, and eventually Kansas. With Kansas, he achieved commercial success, writing hit songs like "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". In 1979, Livgren converted to Christianity, which influenced his subsequent work. He continued to work with Kansas, formed a new band called AD, and pursued a solo career. Livgren later formed a band called Proto-Kaw, which released new material until 2011. As the primary songwriter for Kansas, Livgren contributed to the band's worldwide success, with numerous Gold and multi-Platinum albums and over 14 million recordings sold.
Kerry Allen Livgren (born September 18, 1949) is an American musician, best known as one of the founding members and primary songwriters for the American...
band. After the band's split, Hope started the Christian band AD with KerryLivgren, Michael Gleason, Warren Ham, and Dennis Holt. AD released two albums...
by American progressive rock band Kansas and written by band member KerryLivgren, first released on their 1977 album Point of Know Return. The song peaked...
teens. Meredith lived in Manhattan, Kansas and formed Saratoga with KerryLivgren, Don Montre and Dan Wright after high school in Topeka, Kansas. Saratoga...
released on their 1976 studio album, Leftoverture. Written by guitarist KerryLivgren, the song became the band's first Top 40 hit, reaching No. 11 on the...
instead. He also briefly started his own band called Storm. He played on KerryLivgren's debut solo album Seeds of Change (1980), and Yngwie Malmsteen's debut...
perception, and his compositions dominate the album, with Kansas co-founder KerryLivgren only contributing three tracks. Because the sound of Drastic Measures...
sparse acoustic nature. The guitar line for the song was written by KerryLivgren as a finger exercise for learning fingerpicking. His wife, Vicci, heard...
"The Wall" on the 1984 release of The Best of Kansas are remixed by KerryLivgren and unique to the first version of this collection. For the 1999 reissue...
and the third solo album for its leader KerryLivgren. The album was re-issued in the late 1990s under Livgren's new record label, Numavox Records.[citation...
songs. It fell on KerryLivgren to fill the void. The new compositions retained much of the classically inspired complexity of Livgren's previous work. Kansas...
the band in 2014. All songs written by KerryLivgren. Kansas Steve Walsh - lead and backing vocals KerryLivgren - guitars, keyboards, producer, engineer...
musician KerryLivgren. The album won a Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year. In his review, Allmusic editor Mark W.B. Allender praises Kerry Livgren's...
vocals on "Down the Road" and "Lonely Street", piano on "Down the Road" KerryLivgren – electric and rhythm guitars (except on "Song for America" and "Lamplight...
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