John elefante artist profile

John Elefante born March 18, is an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer. He is known for his tenure as frontman of the rock group Kansas and is currently touring with several groups that have featured members from classic rock bands. Growing up, he sang and performed drums for his family band, The Brotherhood. As an artist, his credits include writing and singing lead vocals on three multi-platinum albums; as a producer, his albums have earned numerous GMA Dove Awards, four Grammy Awards most recently in , and ten Grammy nominations.

He has maintained a close working relationship with his brother, Dino co-writer of several Kansas songs , throughout his career and has been married since , and has three children. That year, the band was one of the top-grossing concert acts in the world and Elefante had never been in a band apart from his family. Although several of the top vocalists of the day applied for the job e.

Elefante sang the lead vocals and performed keyboards on two Kansas albums. Around this time the band began to buckle under the increasing strain of maintaining the consistent radio hits and record company commercial expectations.

John Elefante is an American singer,

A new age of sequenced synthesizers and drum machines confronted Kansas with the near-impossible challenge of maintaining their musical essence and commercial integrity. He also contributed songwriting, keyboards, background vocals, and engineering to the effort. Closing out the decade, Elefante had produced five major label albums, and performed on Over the next five years, Elefante worked at an almost frenetic pace as one of the most in-demand producers in Nashville.

He usually performed on the releases as well, often sharing songwriting credits, as well. Elefante was committed to his role as producer, eschewing other opportunities such as an offer to replace Bobby Kimball as lead singer for Grammy winners, Toto.