Moonlight,” any return to former glories was sidetracked when Gramm needed surgery to remove a brain tumor in 1997. And while Gramm rejoined Foreigner in 1992 and was fully involved in the 1994 album, “Mr. Earlier rocking hits like “Feels Like The First Time,” “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision” and “Urgent” established Foreigner’s credentials as a band with talent for writing catchy mainstream rock.īut then founding member, guitarist Mick Jones and singer Lou Gramm had a falling out and Gramm left the band in 1990. Over the course of six albums, from the 1977 self-titled album through 1987’s “Inside Information,” Foreigner notched 15 top 20 singles, the high point coming with the multi-chart-topping epic ballad, “I Want To Know What Love Is” in 1984. The group is doing evening-with shows that will be filled with many of hit songs that made the early lineup of Foreigner one of the world’s biggest bands from the late 1970s into the mid-80s. So now we’re going to go next year, but we have obligations here (in the states), too. “Part of it is we realized we kind of had to make up lost ground a little bit, so we knew we would have to work a little bit harder this year and next year, for sure, and kind of make up that lost time (of touring),” Hansen said. The group - which includes band founder and guitarist Mick Jones, bassist/keyboardist Jeff Pilson, keyboardist Michael Bluestein, guitarist Bruce Watson drummer Chris Frazier and guitarist/bassist Luis Maldonado - has 121 shows booked overall, with the band hitting 71 cities in the United States this year. Now Hansen and the rest of Foreigner are back on tour and doing it in a big way. In fact, I had kind of in the back of my mind been saying to myself I wonder if there’s a possibility that I could kind of take six months off or something and take a break because we had been hitting it eight, nine months a year for 15 years in a row.” I’m in a fortunate position so I wasn’t affected really too much in a negative way. And I was able to get a lot of stuff done and do a lot of things.
But then as time rolled on, I realized I had never been able to watch four seasons happen in real time in my own house. So yeah, that was something I was able to do. “And especially the first few months were really great and it was enjoyable and it allowed me to rest my voice in a way that I hadn’t been able to do that for quite a long time. “I have not had this kind of time off in 15 years,” Hansen said in a recent phone interview, as he looked back on the forced hiatus from touring. This is the #1 selling weight loss supplement that addresses the actual cause of belly fat. That wish more than became true when the pandemic hit and he and his Foreigner bandmates were forced to take time off for some 18 months.
Kelly Hansen, lead singer of Foreigner, could probably say he now has a true appreciation for the cautionary saying “Be careful what you wish for…”īy the time 2020 rolled around, he had actually begun to think he would really benefit from taking a break from the nearly non-stop routine of touring that had been a way of life in Foreigner since he joined the group in 2005.
Features, Music INTERVIEW WITH KELLY HANSEN//LEAD SINGER OF FOREIGNER
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