LUBA DVORAK

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I was born in a small town called Brno in what was then called Czechoslovakia. When I was six my parents took me and my brother on vacation to what was then called Yugoslavia. What they didn't mention to us or our family or friends (due to the risk of being turned in) was that we weren't coming back, well at least not until the current government was overthrown. So my father somehow erased stamps in our passports so we could get into Austria and claim refugee status. As huge a risk as it was, things went according to plan and after a year and a half we finally settled in Vancouver, Canada. My dad was a blacksmith by trade but also a well respected musician back home and there would always be some kind of a hootenanny goin on at our place. So when I was twelve I started playing guitar, by fifteen I was playing the bars with a highschool band called "Terror of Tiny Town". We put out three cd's toured Japan, Europe, Canada and the US. After eight years we all kinda got sick of each other and I started my band the "Big Rig Sweeties". We were probably the loudest band in town and put out two cd's and again toured all over. I sold some songs to video games and TV shows and also had a small hit with the song "Big Toy's & 4x4's". I stared doing solo acoustic shows after a tour of Europe with the band was cancelled following 9/11. I got comfortable with the idea and in 2003 recorded my first solo record "Parts for Sale". I called my friend Kenny Aronoff to play drums, he's really cool and has played with John Mellencamp, Melissa Etheridge and many others. A few other friends helped out and I have been a solo artist ever since. In March '06 my pal/producer Allen Rodger flew out to NYC from Vancouver and we shacked up in a friends beach house in Rockaway Beach...yes the same one the Ramones song is about..and recorded ten songs for my new record "Hotel La Rence".We stuck a microphone out the window for the cool mellow sounds of the Atlantic Ocean, bought a case of red vine and a carton of Marlboro's and got down to work...what we ended up with is a nice little "hangover Record" as I like to refer to it. "Hotel La Rence" is out now in Europe on United One Records and coming out in the US and Canada in Jan 07....check out some of the tunes above and stay tuned..Cheers, LDwww.luba-dvorak.com