BIOGRAPHY

Armenian-Irish musician & entertainer Gregory Page-Hovelian was born & grew up in North London, his father was the Armenian pop singer Gregory Hovelian. His Irish mother Moyra Page was the lead singer/saxophone player in one of Britain's first all-girl group's,

The Beat-Chics, that toured with The Beatles in August 1965. This was young Gregory's first tour spending time with the Fab Four.

He was a shy quiet boy, fond of books and pictures, a solitary rambler in the woods & fields around his country home in England where he grew up. At fourteen he went to America, and for the next 5 years he wrote poetry and learned to play the guitar. During this time he got to know music intimately. James Taylor, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Nick Drake & Harry Neilsson were his great loves, he admired them greatly because they wrote about the sufferings of the poor and abandoned. 
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In Southern California, he began to doubt himself and his work. A rebuff from a girl he loved was the starting point of his despair. Writing about this wretched world and finding some consolation in his clumsy efforts to represent what he saw and felt, he resolved at

twenty-seven, after a period of wandering and depressing uncertainty, to become a songwriter.

He thought this was his only means of salvation, a solitary and pure activity in which he would be free, responsible for himself alone, and yet might create a work that would give joy and understanding to others.​

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