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Shïan Smith-Pancorvo
Debs 23/Shïan Smith-Pancorvo | |
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| Birth name | Christian Nicholas Vernon Smith |
| Born | 5 December 1980 |
| Origin | Farringdon, England |
| Genres | Rock, pop, progressive rock, art rock, industrial rock, ambient |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Drums, guitar, Composition Production |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Big Cat, Mercury Records, Taste Media, Our Rekords |
Shïan Smith-Pancorvo (born 5 December 1980) is a gender-fluid British musician and author. In 1994, while at Highgate School, he began his career alongside his brother, Ben Fox Smith, as drummer and backing vocalist for Stony Sleep. Since Stony Sleep split up, he has played drums for Flying Mango Attack with Anno Birkin, Razorlight with Johnny Borrell, and then again for his brother's second band, Serafin.
During his 25-year musical career he has composed, produced and performed for many acts including punk-prog collectives French Car & the Bulimic Wizards and GENRE 18, electro-rock act Afterlife, acoustic piano duo Toad and Frog and for the travelling soul-rock solo-artist Tom Eady.
In his life Shïan has also worked in insurance companies, been a market researcher, a kitchen porter, a salesman and an English teacher whilst living in Colombia for six years.
He has also written the first book in a series of auto-biographical/observational works, From Stony Sleep to Razorlight, published September 2017.
Discography[edit]
- Stony Sleep - Music For Chameleons, 1996 (drums, backing vocals, percussion)
- Stony Sleep - A Slack Romance, 1998 (drums, backing vocals, percussion)
- Flying Mango Attack - Karmageddon, 1999 (drums, percussion)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards - Refuse To Believe, 2003 (vocals, composition, drums, guitars, lyrics, keyboards, production)
- Razorlight - Up All Night, 2004 (drums, backing vocals, percussion)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards - Religion Is Good For You, 2004 (vocals, composition, drums, guitars, lyrics, keyboards, production)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards - Like You Were Born Addicted, 2005 (vocals, composition, guitars, lyrics, keyboards, production)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards - Sister of Art, 2006 (vocals, composition, guitars, lyrics, keyboards)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards - A~Tension Superior, 2007 (vocals, composition, guitars, lyrics, production)
- Serafin - To The Teeth, 2008 (drums, backing vocals)
- Genre 18 - A Floydian Slip, 2010 (vocals, composition, lyrics, guitars, production)
- Toad and Frog - Beat Death, 2013 (vocals, composition)
- Tom Eady - State Of The Animal, 2018, (production, drums, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards)
- GENRE 18 - Anno's Saga, Part I, 2018
- GENRE 18 - Clearwater (in pre-production for 2018 release), (vocals, guitars, composition, production)
Bibliography[edit]
- From Stony Sleep to Razorlight (release September, 2017)
- From Barcelona to the New Base (due for release in 2020)
Filmography[edit]
- UKfrenia - a short film by Gisler Garces Vargas, October, 2017 (lead actor)
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Category:Male drummers
Category:English guitarists
Category:English male singers
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Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:1980 births
Category:People educated at Highgate School
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