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On September 18, 1949, Kerry Livgren was born in Topeka, Kansas, as the first child of parents Allen and Betty Livgren. Livgren began his own musical career while still in high school along with childhood friend Timothy Scott Strauss. Livgren formed his first band, the Gimlets, with Strauss and other friends. The Gimlets slowly dissolved in 1969. Livgren joined a mainstream rhythm and blues band called the Mellotones then played with a band from western Kansas called The Reasons Why. Livgren formed another band called Saratoga, which later merged with rival group White Clover to form the band Kansas.
In 1980, Livgren began a solo career with the release of “Seeds of Change,” an album featuring a variety of musicians. His second self-produced album was named “Timeline” and was distributed by CBS in 1983. The musicians featured in Timeline formed the band “AD.” Livgren returned to the Topeka, Kansas area in 1994 to form production companies, including Grandyzine Productions and Numavox Records. Numavox Records has since released a number of Livgren’s solo works, including “Prime Mover II,” “Collector’s Sedition Volume One,” and “The Best of Kerry Livgren.” Numavox Records and Livgren also published an orchestral and vocal composition album entitled “Cantata: The Resurrection Lazarus” in 2021 after over thirty years of development.
See the Kerry Livgren papers.
