Artist Info: Livan

Think American pop stars have had to overcome adversity? Theyve got nothing on the UK artist known throughout Europe and in the UK as LIVAN (pronounced Lie'van). The energetic electro-rocker is the grandson of the last popularly-elected prime minister of Greece before the coup that delivered the country's government into the hands of a right-wing military junta. LIVANs early life was one of exile, resistance, and ostracism: not from his schoolmates or from his parents, but from his entire nation. [read more...]