Christian Smith-Pancorvo
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Shïan Smith-Pancorvo in March 2010
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Christian Nicholas Vernon Smith |
| Born | 5 December 1980 |
| Origin | Islington, England |
| Genres | Rock, pop, progressive rock, art rock, industrial rock, ambient, |
| Instruments | Vocals, Drums, guitar, Composition Production |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| 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 |
Christian Smith-Pancorvo (Shïan) (born 5 December 1980) is a British musician. 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, electro-punk act X&O and for the travelling soul-rock solo-artist Tom 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; part 1 - 'From Stony Sleep to Razorlight'- published summer 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, keyboards, production)
Serafin - To The Teeth, 2008 (drums, backing vocals)
Genre 18 - A Floydian Slip, 2010 (vocals, composition, lyrics, guitars, production)
Genre 18 - demos, 2011 (vocals, composition, production)
Toad and Frog - Beat Death, 2013 (vocals, composition)
Tom Eady - State Of The Animal (in post-production for 2017 release), (production, drums, backing vocals, guitars)
X&O - Clearwater (in production for 2018 release), (vocals, guitars, composition, production)
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