Biography
Dan Pavlides, raised in St. Joseph, Michigan – started playing guitar as a teenager and recorded his first album Gambler in 1979 with many of his good friends. The Numero Group included Dan’s Lily of the Valley on their Wayfaring Stranger - Cosmic American Music release in 2016.
Dan went on to record The Truth on You in 1988, where he started to experiment with his fun-loving Rockabilly style; most evident in the songs Hillbilly Baby and Rock & Roll Tragedy. Although most of the album stays pretty close to the Americana style established in Gambler.
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He continued to explore Rockabilly with Guyana Diana (an obscure, disturbing song about the Jonestown Massacre) and a number of other covers including, Little Miss Sad, Be Bop a Lula, Tobacco Road, Time Won’t Let Me, So You Want to be a Rock n Roll Star that will be released under the name Dan Pavlides – Everythingz Jake Anthology in coming months.
A gifted writer and musician, Dan completed Surprise Me Sometime in 2000, just weeks before his death from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 45.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.