Artist description Cheerful & Fabulous...Adorable & Introspective. You walk away smiling.

Music Style alternative pop/soft rock/60's vibe

Musical Influences Byrds, Hollies, Beach Boys, Beatles, Sagittarius, Harper's Bizarre, Innocence, Free Design, Archies

Similar Artists Byrds, Bobby Fuller, Association, Left Banke, Herman's Hermits, Hollies, Beach Boys, Banana Splits, Simon & Garfunkel, Gary Lewis & Playboys, Partridge Family, Archies, Monkees, Peter & Gordon

Artist History No history that we know of.

Group Members Sun PK is a brilliant singer/songwriter surrounded by the exemplary musicianship of noted touring musicians Mark Bosch on guitars and Bill Dobrow on drums. Bass and Keyboards were played by award winning producer Daniel Wise (Maceo Parker, Marie Frank, Joan Osborne, Andy Partridge, 22 Brides). Additional instruments played by other session & touring musicians: Ron Tooley, trumpet; Stacey Shames, harp; Cenovia Cummins, violin; Lisa Haney, cello; Jenni Kaplan and Libby (22 Brides) Johnson, background vocals.

Instruments Acoustic & electric guitars, Hammond & Wurlitzer organs & other assorted Synths including a Mini Moog, Drums, Assorted Percussion, Strings, Harp, Trumpet, Slide Whistle, Kazoos, Bird Whistle, Sound Effects, Vocals galore and on & on forever. With the exception of a few of the pad synths all the instruments played on this record were vintage!

Albums Inquire Within

Press Reviews "Thanks for the CD that u sent, am listening right now. I really, really like this. Great melodies, and just downright beautiful music."-Gareth Jones, IC Radio, London "I want to compliment you on your wonderful effort in realizing your own work. I have spent the better part of a weekend listening to it over and over. Much of the material is quite catchy and the album is full of melodies that leave you walking away happilyhumming them. My three favorites are "It's A Smiley Face World", My Baby Makes Me Feel So Good/Nowhere" (which I consider one song because they're joined), and "Move On". Oddly enough, rather than The Beach Boys and The Beatles and The Free Design, names that sprung to mind when I listened were, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, The Cyrkle, Art Garfunkel, Bob Welch, Herman's Hermits, The Lemon Pipers, Boyce & Hart, The Banana Splits, The Wombles, Kermit The Frog, The Millennium, The Raspberries, and Hanson. You certainly have a wealth of encyclopedic musical reference points in your work and I think anybody who knows 60's pop music will appreciate it. It's a shame that there isn't much music out there these days of this caliber. As the radio and current popular trends would seem to dictate, melody is something that seems to have been forgotten all about."- Robin Crutchfield, Quirky Magazine and Dark Day (dark-day.com) "When was the last time you bought a CD that you played day after day, enjoying it more and more with each listening? I recently found such a CD, entitled "Inquire Within", released just this year by a recording artist who goes by the name of "Sun". I play the CD almost every day and it makes me feel like a teenager again. It is filled with great melody, harmony, rhythm, and lyrics. The band plays well together and almost all of the cuts have either a definite ending or a clever segue into the next cut. Fade-out endings are rare (that feature alone gets high marks from me). The abrupt changes of key don't really qualify as modulations but are they ever musical! The transition from "My Baby Makes Me Feel So Good" to "Nowhere" is brilliant. When I first met Sun several months ago he told me that he wrote his own music (every cut on the CD) and that he would classify it as retro 60's. I can hear in his CD the influence of the Beatles, the Hollies, Herman's Hermits, the Association, the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, and probably another dozen groups that I haven't yet identified. The songs are fresh and original, never an attempt to simply copy what those groups did. Some of the cuts employ gimmicks that border on the corny, but they all work. The album is inspirational and was obviously created with a lot of love. You are in for a treat with this one. - John Link, John Link Music Newsletter “Could this be any happier an album? I mean, the first full song is actually entitled "It's A Smiley Face World," and comes bearing loads of "la-la's" backed by, at various times, kazoos and a slide whistle. Not so fast. In fact, Inquire Within can far more accurately be summed up with the phrase, "Screw you, life: I can be happy despite everything you've thrown at me." The origin of the lovely "My Baby Makes Me Feel So Good" is explained in the liner notes: "To my beautiful Monte for 18 years of companionship and the closest I've come to experiencing eternal love in the material world so far. After almost 11 years I finished writing (the song) just hours before you died...it is for you." The track "Lavender Lane" is dedicated "to everyone who watched me publicly struggle and flail through the muck of my life." And, yet, despite whatever hardships Sun has suffered, Inquire Within is a wonderfully produced tribute to the breezy pop of the '60's (from the Association to the Cyrkle, even some early Bee Gees) with melodies as cheery as any theme song ever recorded for a Sid & Marty Krofft show. It's an unabashedly retro (if occasionally overly saccharine) experience, and a true testament to the healing power of music.” - William Harris, NineVolt Magazine, www.ninevoltmag.com “A real treat you may have missed is Sun's Inquire Within. A must for '60s soft-pop aficionados and/or those who miss the days of bright 'n' bubbly "feel good" music, this is squeaky clean sweetness from beginning to end, with nary a duff track to be heard. If tunes like "It's a Smiley Face World" and "I Didn't Have Time To Cry On Thursday" don't make you break out in a big 'ol goofy grin and sing along, then you just ain't livin'.” - John M. Borack, Amplifier Magazine, www.twomp.com/amplifier “The New Yorker Sun has many talents. Besides being a musician, he is a philosopher, paints and used to appear as drag queen. Concerning his music, Sun seems to like sixties soft pop and bubblegum. On the back of the cover of his album “Inquire Within” he has named some bands he likes. Besides others there are Harpers Bizarre, Sagittarius, Bobby Fuller Four, Left Banke and the Beach Boys amongst his favorites. “Inquire Within” is at the same time a kind of tribute to all above bands. One could add the Archies, whose carefree Bubblegum shines through in the song “It's A Smiley Face World”. All in all Sun’s album is a beautiful piece of sixties sunshine pop.” - Robert Pally, Music Scene Magazine, http://www.music-scene.ch/

Additional Info The Official SunPK.com Souvenir Stickers, Other music written by and-or recorded by SunPK available at www.SunPK.com.

Location New York City, NY - USA

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