With song-writing talent picked from right across the board, this panel will address both new and established talent, with a practical demonstration.

Hargo Halsa

Hargo is a 23 year-old American Sikh singer/songwriter, whose music inspires peace, love, and Rock n Roll. His “past meets present” sound is often described as “The Beatles meets Beck; Coldplay meets Cat Stevens...”
Beatles’ Record Producer, Phil Spector, produced Hargo’s song “Crying for John Lennon” and Hargo has worked with famed Rock n Roll glam photographer, Mick Rock (David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Queen, The Killers, Gwen Stefani).
In 2000Hargo opened for Seal at a festival in New Mexico with Seal remarking to the crowd afterwards, “This young man’s music moves me deeply.” Backstage, Seal asked Hargo for input on a couple of songs that were later released on the Grammy-nominated album, Seal IV. In 2006, Hargo performed with Kate Pierson, of the B-52’s and sang backup on Hargo’s “Crying for John Lennon” and told the crowd, “Hargo was an ‘up and coming, talented artist’… now he has emerged!”
Currently in England to produce and promote his upcoming EP Ritual Habitual, the single “Just the Sky”, recorded at Liverpool’s own Parr Street Studios (Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head), is featured at Liverpool Sound City in the UK artists The Singh Twins’ animated short film Liverpool 800.