World renowned bass player Kasim
Sulton will once again be celebrating his longtime association with the ground breaking progressive rock band Utopia and their legacy by performing a limited number of shows consisting entirely of Utopia music with a full band. The set list will
be comprised of songs hand-picked by Sulton, spanning the 10 albums he appears on, including deep cuts as well as many more familiar songs.
Sulton joined Utopia in 1976 when the group settled into it's most recognizable quartet of Todd
Rundgren (guitar, vocals), Kasim
Sulton (bass, vocals), Roger Powell (keyboards, vocals), and Willie Wilcox (drums, vocals). All four band members wrote, sang, produced, and engineered the material on their critically acclaimed albums. Sulton wrote and sang lead on Utopia's biggest
hit, "Set Me Free," from their best-selling album Adventures in Utopia (1980), which reached #27 on the Billboard Top 40 charts.
"My career began with Utopia," says Sulton. "I can't think of a better way to honor my work with Todd, Roger, and Willie than to do a string of performances that showcase the special and unique music we created together." The tour
kicks off Friday, February 28 in Washington D.C.
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Kasim
Sulton is recognized and respected the world over as a solo artist, and for his work with other artists including Todd
Rundgren and Utopia, Meat Loaf, Joan Jett, Hall & Oates, Richie Sambora, Patti Smith, Patty Smyth, Mick Jagger, Blue Oyster Cult, and Don
Felder to name just a few. He has added his esteemed input to a variety of projects, ranging from playing bass, keyboards, and/or guitar, to adding vocal harmonies, singing lead, and contributing as a songwriter, to producing entire albums, as he
did with the Meat
Loaf VH-1 Storytellers CD, released in 1999. His latest release, Live Bootleg -
recorded in 2015 at The
Cutting Room in NYC and Hotel
Utah in San Francisco - features Kasim
Sulton solo material and Utopia songs.
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