FUNK Stephen

Stephen Funk Pearson grew up in a professor's family. He was at the Woodstock Music Festival and travelled in Russia. He built a cabin on an island in British Colombia and lived off the land. He played guitar, piano, cello, flute, drums, etc. He was bedridden with an exotic disease for two years. He went to India on crutches, and founded a forty-members ashram in New York. He attended school and graduated (A.B. Vasaar College - double major in philosophy and music; M.A. Hunter College - with honors, in composition). He started folk, rock, and jazz bands (wrote the music, played and sang). He raised four owls. He taught at Bad College. He was a lifeguard. He spent two years in Europe on a Maguire Fellowship. He recorded a "Four Stars" (Philadelphia Inquirer) critically acclaimed album of his own compositions. He lived with a native family in Red Ground, Jamaica. He performed concerts in Europe and America. He was artist-in-residence in North Carolina and New York. He travelled to Africa and Latin America. He was assistant to the press secretary in the Paul Tsongas presidential campaign. He was on radio and TV. Funk Pearon compositions are recorded and performed widely. His music is published by Theodore Presser, Doberman-Yppan and Guitar Solo Publications. His recordings are with GSP Recordings and Homespun Tapes. His cartoon series Cacophony Corner appears in Soundboard magazine. His articles have been in newspapers and magazines. He produces (Funk Yew Productions) and hosts an award winning television series, Funk-TV. He resides in Cambridge, Massachusettes. Stephen Funk Pearson Website