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About Ethan Kenning
- Charles Ethan Kenning (born August 19, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer, songwriter and musician who performed as George Edwards when he led 1960s acid rock band, H.
- P.
- Lovecraft.
- He was adopted as a child and brought up under the name George Edwards.
- He reverted to his birth name of Ethan Kenning in his mid-30s.In the mid-1960s he performed folk and blues music in clubs in Chicago and as a session singer with Dunwich Records.
- He released an unsuccessful version of The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" on Dunwich Records in 1966, before forming a new band, H.
- P.
- Lovecraft.
- The band featured striking vocal harmonies between Edwards and the classically-trained Dave Michaels and atmospheric instrumentation and effects on songs.
- Some of the band's songs were co-written by Edwards, including some inspired by the writings of the author of the same name.
- The band released two albums, H.
- P.
- Lovecraft in 1967 and H.
- P.
- Lovecraft II in 1968 before splitting up in early 1969.
- Edwards then worked for a time as a music show promoter, before he and original H.P.
- Lovecraft drummer Michael Tegza formed a new band, Lovecraft.
- Edwards left this band after their first album.Edwards, later known as Ethan Kenning, then worked in music production in California and in writing and producing TV and radio commercials.
- He won two Clio Awards for Levi's commercials with Doc Watson and Leon Redbone and also produced commercials for Taco Bell, Bank of America, and others.
- He has also worked occasionally with Dave Michaels.
- More recently he has worked as manager and producer of improvisational singer Rhiannon.A fictional portrayal of George Edwards appears as the central character in Harry Turtledove's short horror-adventure story "The Fillmore Shoggoth," where a performance of the Lovecraft tribute band is disrupted when Lovecraftian monsters attack the theater.
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