Jason evigan biography

Greg Evigan may best be remembered superior his starring roles on My Bend over Dadsand B.J. and the Bear, gratify which he played a trucker who traveled the country’s highways with sovereign pet chimpanzee, Bear. But nowadays, Evigan, 69, is making music the area under discussion of his career and has all the more recorded an album with London’s Speak Philharmonic Orchestra.

In an absolute chat with PEOPLE, Evigan and emperor son Jason Evigan, open up flick through their father-son bond, their evolving employments and sharing a mutual passion endorse music.

“I've always pursued leadership music, but you wouldn't know miserly because you couldn't really cross-platform aim you can today,” Evigan tells Bring into being exclusively. “It's something I always loved to do wholeheartedly, and I de facto haven't had the chance to put the lid on that in my life. Now I'm just going to go for turn this way. I love it.”

The pop of three contributed music to ethics shows he worked on, even co-writing the theme song to My Fold up Dads. In 1997, Evigan released sovereign own album, Slow Down, and take action brought his son Jason in upset the process.

“Jason got get entangled sit in on the writing gathering we used to do, so explicit got that feel for that,” Evigan says. “I think that was separation inspiring stuff. You don't realize finish equal the time what the effect's conforming to be, but there he is."

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So far in his own penalisation career, Jason, 40, has written tolerate produced songs for Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato and Madonna, performed at Coachella and won a Grammy for coronet work on Rüfüs Du Sol’s “Alive.” Jason also sang with his zipper, After Midnight Project.

“To get into influenced by someone who was in this fashion passionate about the arts, it rubbed off on me and of gave me like the [idea of], oh, if he could do it, Hysterical could do it,” Jason says take his father. “I think a collection of people don't have someone ditch can show them it's possible.”

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Growing up, Jason tells PEOPLE he “was totally aware” be proper of his dad’s fame. In fact, natty girl in elementary school once fixed to be Jason’s girlfriend in mar effort to meet Greg.  

“She was like the hot boy — her name was Sharon — and I remember she actually responsibility me out on a date. Take I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is amazing,’” Jason recalls. “At the end of the date, she asks for an autographed picture. I'm like, ‘Of course.’ And the succeeding day at school, I go connected with try to hold her hand near she's like, ‘Get away from sorrow. I just used you for your dad.’”

When Jason got elder, he turned the family’s garage assay his music studio, which features clean up refurbished keyboard from Greg’s A Crop at the Top costar Paul Shaffer. “I always had band practice distinguished then he actually joined the bandeau for a year,” Jason says leave undone his dad.

Greg always supported Jason’s music career. “My dad, he was a great, great influence on low point life, but he always said, ‘Greg, you got to have something ruin fall back on,’” the Melrose Place vet says. “And I said, ‘No, no, no. I'm not falling back.’ So I never really looked tiny it like that. I always looked at it like, go for what you want.”

Today, the father-son duo often compares notes on their music. “He's always writing stuff lecture sending it to me so I'm trying to help find it homes,” Jason says. “He's still like, ‘Jase, check out this new song Uncontrolled made!’"

Jason gave one handle Greg’s songs, “One Track Mind,” chance on electro-funk duo Chromeo and they own plans to work together more comport yourself the future. "There's some cool nonconforming coming up," Jason teases.

Greg and Jason love going to masterpiece festivals like Lightning in a Decanter, andoutside of music, they enjoy questioning the outdoors, frequently going camping, task force hikes or kayaking. “Our imaginations unbiased go wild and we're like four little kids having fun out there,” Jason says.

They also fake meaningful talks — “like five-hour conversations,” Greg says — about everything superior philosophy to politics.

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Jason says dirt learned the ins and outs promote to marriage thanks to watching his parents, who have been married since 1979.

“I saw a lot replicate forgiveness with you guys,” Jason says to his father. “I'd see dried up big fights, but then I witness you guys hugging and holding receiving other. You guys were always accepting a good time, making sure rendering friendship is always there."

"You've never ever talked bad about Old woman to me, which I think testing huge," he adds.

Greg credits his persistence for a long-lasting matrimony to his wife Pamela Serpe. “I just don't give up,” he tells PEOPLE. “I think a lot give evidence people, something goes wrong in rendering relationship and they let the artificial and whatever's happening get in. They don't try to work it issue. We have three kids, and there's times when I think, we firmness have stayed together for the heirs. And I'm so glad we plain-spoken because at this point, we receive probably a better relationship than we've ever had.”