Crispian Mills
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Crispian John David Boulting |
| Also known as | Dodge |
| Born |
18 January 1973 Hammersmith, London, England |
| Genres | Rock, Indie, alternative rock, psychedelic |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Film director |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, harmonica, sarod, ukulele, tambourine |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels |
Columbia Cowboy Strangefolk |
| Associated acts |
Kula Shaker The Jeevas The Prodigy |
| Website | www.kulashaker.co.uk |
Crispian Mills (born 18 January 1973 as Crispian John David Boulting), also known as Krishna Kantha Das, is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director. He is the son of actress Hayley Mills and director Roy Boulting, the grandson of Sir John Mills and Lady Mary Hayley Mills (née) Bell, nephew of Juliet Mills and director Jonathan Mills, and half-brother to Jason Lawson.
Active since 1988, Mills is best known as the frontman of the psychedelic indie rock band Kula Shaker. Following the band's break-up in 1999, he remained with Columbia Records (a subsidiary of Sony BMG), and toured with a set of session musicians (including a support slot for Robbie Williams) under the name Pi, although no official studio recordings were released in full. After the label rejected the Pi album, Mills disappeared for a short time, returning in 2002 as frontman and lead guitarist for back-to-basics rock outfit The Jeevas, who disbanded in 2005 to make way for a reformed Kula Shaker, who released their third album Strangefolk in 2007.
Mills was born in Hammersmith, London, England on 18 January 1973. His mother, Hayley Mills, had made her name as a child star in the 1960s, and met Mills' father, Roy Boulting, on the set of light British comedy The Family Way. At the time, Boulting was still married to his third wife Sandra. Boulting was 33 years Hayley Mills' senior, and only five years younger than her father, Sir John Mills. The pair went on to marry in 1971. The family lived on Belgrade Road, in the south-west London district of Hampton, and had an additional seat at Cobstone Windmill at Ibstone, Buckinghamshire. The marriage did not last, and the pair split in 1975, followed by an official divorce in 1977. At this point, Hayley was pregnant again by actor Leigh Lawson with her second son, Jason. Mills did not see his father again until he was 16.
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