Origin Islington, England Role Musician Name Christian Smith-Pancorvo | Years active 1994–present Record label Mercury Records | |
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Birth name Christian Smith Pancorvo Born 5 December 1980 (age 43) ( 1980-12-05 ) Labels Big Cat, Mercury Records, Taste Media, Our Rekords Associated acts Stony Sleep
Flying Mango Attack
French Car and the Bulimic Wizards
Razorlight
Serafin
Genre 18 Albums Up All Night, Picture Perfect, Jugol gaan (Duet songs) Music groups Razorlight (2002 – 2004), Serafin Genres Rock music, Pop music, Progressive rock, Art rock, Industrial rock, Ambient music, Experimental music Similar People Carl Dalemo, Bjorn Agren, David 'Skully' Sullivan, Gus Robertson, Johnny Borrell | ||
Instruments Vocals, Drums, guitar | ||
Christian Smith-Pancorvo (Shïan) (born 5 December 1980) is a 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 22 year musical career he has composed, produced and performed for many acts including visionary collective French Car & the Bulimic Wizards, classical art-rock band Genre 18, electro-rock act Afterlife, acoustic piano duo Toad and Frog and for the travelling soul-rock solo-artist 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 trilogy of auto-biographical/observational works, From Stony Sleep to Razorlight, published September, 2017.
Discography
Stony Sleep - Music For Chameleons, 1996 (drums, backing vocals, percussion)
Stony Sleep - A Slack Romance, 1998 (drums, backing vocals, percussion)
Flying Mango Attack - Armageddon, 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)
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)
Eady - State Of The Animal (in post-production for 2017 release), (production, drums, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards)
Genre 18 - Clearwater (in production for 2018 release), (vocals, guitars, composition, production)
Bibliography
From Stony Sleep to Razorlight (release September, 2017)
Filmography
UKfrenia - a short film by Gisler Garces Vargas, October, 2017 (lead actor)