Kerry Livgren Net Worth
Kerry Livgren is an American musician and songwriter with a net worth of $10 million. He is best known for his work as a founding member and primary songwriter of the 1970s progressive rock band, Kansas.
Livgren was born on September 18, 1949, in Topeka, Kansas. He taught himself to play the guitar and other instruments while writing his own music in his teenage years. He played professionally with the Gimlets while still a student at Topeka West High School. After graduating from Washburn University in 1967, Livgren joined the Mellotones, a rhythm and blues band. He left the Mellotones to form his own band, Saratoga, before teaming up with Phil Ehart to form The Kansas Band in 1970.
Kansas saw several lineup changes before being signed as Kansas by Don Kirshner in 1973. The band’s initial albums failed to bring critical acclaim and fame, but the 1976 album Leftoverture, featuring Livgren’s last-minute addition of the single “Carry on Wayward Son,” brought the band breakthrough success. Livgren also wrote the title song “Dust in the Wind” for Point of Know Return (1977) and most of the other songs on the album.
After becoming a born-again Christian in 1979, Livgren focused more on his solo career, releasing his own albums Seeds of Change (1980) and Time Line (1983). He left Kansas to form the Christian rock band A.D. and continued to work solo while also contributing songs to the continuing Kansas. Livgren founded GrandyZine production company and Numavox Records in a converted barn on his property in 1994. He currently lives with his wife Victoria and their two children.
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