Kurt Travis
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Kurt Thomas Travis (born January 16, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician from Sacramento, California.He is best known as the former lead vocalist for the post-hardcore bands Dance Gavin Dance and A Lot Like Birds.He is currently part of American post-hardcore band Royal Coda.
Travis began his musical career in 2003.He helped start the Sacramento based post-hardcore band Five Minute Ride, releasing the EP, Bathroom Walls... Lipstick Secrets, and the debut studio album The World Needs Convincing of All That It's Missing on Rise Records.Travis later formed the folk music project There & Back Again in 2006.Following these two short-lived musical projects, Travis helped form the experimental rock band No Not Constant in July 2007, later releasing one self-titled bootleg album and disbanding the same year.In 2008, Travis became the lead vocalist and songwriter for the rock band O! the Joy, recording their debut studio album, Zen Mode (2008), at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco, California.Following his underground success, Travis joined the post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance as the clean vocalist, replacing original vocalist Jonny Craig.With the group, he released two full-length studio albums, Dance Gavin Dance (2008) and Happiness (2009), on Rise Records and toured worldwide with other bands such as Closure in Moscow, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and Emarosa, among others.After three years with the band, it was revealed that Travis departed from Dance Gavin Dance in August 2010.The following year, Travis joined as a vocalist in the post-hardcore group A Lot Like Birds, releasing the studio albums Conversation Piece (2011) and No Place (2013) on Equal Vision Records.In February 2016, it was revealed that Travis left the group to pursue other musical endeavors.He briefly joined the math rock trio Eternity Forever in 2016 alongside Strawberry Girls drummer Ben Rosett and Brandon Ewing; the group released the Fantasy EP on April 20, 2017 and disbanded the same year.He also formed the post-hardcore duo Push Over, along with The Fall of Troy vocalist and guitarist Thomas Erak, releasing a demo EP in January 2017.He formed the band Royal Coda, along with former A Lot Like Birds drummer Joe Arrington and former Stolas guitarist Sergio Medina, in 2018.
As a solo musician, Travis released his debut EP, Wha Happen?, an acoustic-inspired pop album, in January 2012.He released his eponymously titled second EP on March 12, 2013 on Equal Vision Records.In support of these two releases, he toured as support on tours with Jonny Craig, Hail the Sun, and The Seeking, among others.Throughout 2013 and 2014, Kurt Travis wrote and recorded his debut studio album Everything Is Beautiful, which was later released in May 2014 on Blue Swan Records.In support of the album, he embarked on a solo tour with Hotel Books and So Much Light.Travis launched his own record label named Esque Records in 2015.In February 2016, he released a split EP with musician Paul Travis on his label Esque Records.