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Val Stevens

org, *1948 CA
Musician of Rock
A.k.a. Valentine Stevens

Canadian organist, born January 18th 1948. Val Stevens was born in Linz, Austria to post-war Russian immigrants. He and his family moved to Canada when he was 3. He started playing music with the accordion, then switched to organ. In the 1960s in Toronto he formed his own band The Weepers, who soon changed name and became The Power. With the addition of singer Grant Smith (13), they became very popular in Toronto and toured with a lot of famous acts i.e., Ike and Tina Turner, Junior Walker, The Dells, Wilson Pickett, and so on, in Canada and throughout the United States. Val Stevens then quit "Grant Smith And The Power" who had by then become a lounge band playing cover tunes, with the ambition to play more personal music. He founded a jazzy trio (The Val Stevens Trio), which met only limited success, and so decided to move to England in late 1970. There he placed ads in Melody Maker, that lead to him joining Clown (7) - which he left very soon - and Tucky Buzzard, with whom he did some gigs and wrote music for one of their song (though uncredited when it was released on their album later). He joined progressive outfit Khan (3) in early 1972, but quit the band in summer.

Genres

• Rock
• R&B/Soul
• Jazz

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