Brad Love - Biography

Born in Olympia, WA and raised in Malott, WA (just west of Okanogan) Brad Love started playing piano at the age of 5 years old. Growing up, both of his parents who were musical played guitar and sang folk and country music in the evenings at home. Brad started in his first band in Jr. High School in which he wrote all the songs that they performed on stage, because he felt "that writing was easier than learning songs off of a record".

Brad and friends started recording when they were in high school on an 8-track recorder at a place called 'Waldo's' in Omak, WA. In 1975 right after making their first recording as a band called 'Aviary' Brad left northeastern Washington and headed for Washington University in Seattle, WA with longtime friend, Paul Madden. Within the next few years, Aviary took on change of members, to eventually become the band that Brian Lane, manager of the progressive rock band Yes, would get signed to a recording deal with Epic Records. (*See Aviary complete history in a booklet that comes with the re-release of Aviary's Self Titled CD on Rewind Records a product of Sony Music Special Products).

After touring, Brad and the band headed for England to record a second, unreleased album. Lacking promotion support, the band was eventually dropped from the label. After seeing an Aviary video, Bestall and Reynolds (Air Supply) Management team contacted Brad for a solo management deal. In 1982 Brad recorded his solo album, 'Colours', on MCA Records with producer John Hug. 'Colours', was released on a technical basis only and received no promotion. Various record companies are considering the idea of a 'real' release of this beautiful album. Also that same year, Brad flew to Australia to work on film music for the movie, 'Captain Invincible' starring Alan Arkin. In 1983 Brad became a staff writer with Screen Gems for 2 years.

After the management team of Bestall & Reynolds (Air Supply) split up, Brad teamed up with 3 guys from the band OXO and in 1984 the band recorded a demo tape which started a large bidding war amongst most of the major record labels. Lack of management caused the band to lose those deals and eventually break up. In 1984 Brad played stand-in keyboards for twosome Wang Chung performing on Solid Gold, American Bandstand and other television shows. From 1985 until 1993 Brad continued writing songs, and started a few Los Angeles bands, one band he originated was the band, 'Artica'. In 1993 Brad moved to Houston, TX and shortly thereafter he began recording his new CD 'Through Another Door'.