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"Candy Givens was a unique musical star that streaked across the Colorado sky and disappeared unexpectedly," observes rock journalist and educator Gil Asakawa. "She had a powerful, throaty voice that could scream the highest rock and roll notes but swoop down to the lowest moaning blues.
Feb 13, 2019 · In 2019, The Colorado Music Hall of Fame will induct Candy Ramey Givens and Zephyr into the Hall of Fame. While it’s impossible to turn back time to give Zephyr its due, this band deserves to be recognized as one of the country’s most incredible, female-fronted groups that, while rooted in blues-rock, transcended that genre to create its ...
Zephyr was an American hard rock band formed in 1968 in Boulder, Colorado by guitarist Tommy Bolin, keyboardist John Faris, bass guitarist David Givens, drummer Robbie Chamberlin, and vocalist Candy Givens. The band's first release, Zephyr (sometimes referred to as the bathtub album [1] ), on ABC/Probe reached #48 on the Billboard 200 chart on ...
Jun 17, 2014 · "Candy Givens was a unique musical star that streaked across the Colorado sky and disappeared unexpectedly," observes rock journalist and educator Gil Asakawa. "She had a powerful, throaty voice that could scream the highest rock and roll notes but swoop down to the lowest moaning blues.
Zephyr played on through the 70s and into the 80s, still writing and recording until Candy’s tragic death in 1984. In November 2021, David Givens completed a complete remix of Sunset Ride using modern digital techniques. His principal goal was to give Candy her props as a pioneering female singer, writer, master harmonica player and arranger.
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Mar 10, 2015 · With Tommy Bolin live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1971
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In Boulder, a feisty little singer named Candy Givens, a Golden High School graduate, and her husband, bassist David Givens, recruited drummer Robbie Chamberlin, keyboardist John Faris and a special young Iowa guitar player named Tommy Bolin to play this same style in a band called Zephyr.
