Lance King

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lance King
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Nov 23, 1962(1962-11-23)
Age	62
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Lance King Biography

Lance King is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on November 23, 1962 in United States.

As a performing musician since 1981, King has sung with many bands in his career, in 1981 the summer after he graduated high school in Winona, MN, King was asked by a few musician friends that he had jammed with in the past to join a small weekend club band called “The News” The band focused mainly on Canadian rock covers and after a couple shows they decided to change the name of the band to “Freelance”. During his five years with the band from (1981–1986) Freelance began playing local bars on the weekends, almost every weekend, then the band reached out to talent agents in the Twin cities and the band began playing farther and wider, by 1983 they were doing club shows, from British Columbia, and Idaho to Michigan in an old school bus they had renovated and dubbed “the urban insult vehicle” mostly due to the fact that they had simply painted it primer grey so it wasn’t school bus yellow anymore. Freelance did create 10 songs of original material and played these live, but never recorded them properly and thus are lost to the world.

In 1986 when Freelance was beginning to fall apart, King joined a Rochester, MN based band Gemini. Gemini had been playing a circuit of clubs and ballrooms in the tri-state area of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin for over ten years when King joined in 1986 they were a cover band playing as much new wave as they were corporate rock, after a year King gave the band an ultimatum, that either they started writing songs and trying to move to the next level or King was moving on to something else. After somewhat of a power play, King managed to become the driving force in the band and in 1988 they started breaking into the clubs in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul market, eventually dethroning the reigning club champions of the day in the premier rooms “The Mirage” and the “Iron Horse” while also playing many other rooms. Gemini was doing exceptionally well with their show attendance, normally having between 700-1000 people a night at their shows, playing over 250 shows a year, they started having major labels coming to the shows. The band was courted by labels and managers but nothing solid was ever offered by the major labels due to the band only having a few originals at the time. The managers contracts King deemed unworthy of the band. So Gemini continued to play shows and write in the clubs during the days, testing the new material on the crowds at night, and every month saving enough to record a couple of their new tunes they felt strongly enough about. By 1990 the band had released its first self-titled, self-financed and self produced album on King’s own label Nightmare records… “Coming Home” was picked up by local station 93X and pirate radio station Z-Rock, the troops station in Iraq during operation Desert Storm as well as several regional broadcast stations from Minnesota and Iowa. The band began extending their shows reach by playing major markets in Kansas City, Chicago, Milwaukee, Winnipeg and all points in-between in an effort to build. The line up had continual lineup changes of second guitarists, drummers, and bassists, the only consistency was King and guitarist Rob Kruger. Rob and Lance switched off on vocals, guitar and keyboards during the band three hour shows. In 1992 Gemini released their second album Out for Blood. With the demanding schedule of playing so many shows consistently over the last several years, the band was wearing on each other due to too many chemicals and lack of sleep. In 1993 King departed to start his own band “The Kings Machine”.

Lance King Net Worth

Lance King is one of the richest Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lance King 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lance King (born November 23, 1962) is an American heavy metal music singer and songwriter specializing in melodic progressive power metal. Lance has sung with many groups over the last 35 years and started the record label Nightmare in 1990 to release his own music and is presently still at the helm of the label.

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In 1997 King was asked to demo up a few songs for British band Balance of Power Balance of Power had already released one album “When the World Falls Down” in 1996 via Point Music/Metal Heaven into Europe and via Pony/Canyon Japan. The band was getting a nice advance from each label which totaled $50,000 plus publishing The band offered King a weekly fee of $1500 a week to record and tour plus performance royalties and expenses, and King said yes! The band immediately flew King to London, England and they recorded all the vocals for their second album “Book of Secrets” in ten days time. This was quite a turn around album for Balance of Power since they had just replaced their guitarist Paul Curtis with Pete Southern, and the direction became much heavier and more progressive with both King and Southern on board, taking the band far from their AOR roots. The band hired “the voice of the BBC Rob Brown” for narration segments on the concept album and drummer /producer Lional Hicks flew out to Minneapolis to mix the album with King, since he liked what Lance had done with the demo mixes. They mixed the album in Logic recording studio’s where King had mixed the first Gemini record with Brian Bart assisting at the board.

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Both Labels loved the change, and so did the media and the fans. “Book of Secrets” getting extremely high marks in all the reviews getting “album of the month” and even covers on several of the largest magazines in Europe. In Japan Burrn Magazine ranked Lance King as #1 best vocalist in Rock/Metal for the year 1998. The band was excited and was offered a tour with Bruce Dickenson due in part to Dickenson sharing bassist Chris Dale with Balance of Power. However King didn’t find out about the opportunity until way after the fact, due to one of the members in Balance of Power turning the tour down for personal reasons. So the band immediately focused on writing their third album “Ten More Tales…” with King again flying from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota to London, England to record his parts, this time in only seven days. Again Hicks flew out to mix the record with King and this time they chose to work at OarFin Studio’s downtown Minneapolis with the golden ears of house engineer Todd Fitzgerald. The band worked out a gentlemen’s agreement with King to release both “Book of Secrets” and “Ten More Tales…”to North America on Nightmare and “Ten More Tales of Grand Illusion” was released simultaneously to Europe, Japan and North America in the spring of 1999.