Daniel Milton Peek was an American musician best known as a member of the folk rock band America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell.
12 Facts About Dan Peek
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Dan Peek has been called a "pioneer in contemporary Christian music".
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Dan Peek moved again to England in 1968 with his family when his father was assigned to a base in London.
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When Dan Peek was a young boy, he suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and had to be hospitalized for weeks 100 miles away from the family home; his parents could only visit occasionally.
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Dan Peek remembered this experience when, about a year before he died, he decided to dispose of five of his vintage guitars.
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Dan Peek abused alcohol and other drugs during his time touring with the band and elected to leave shortly after America's February 1977 release of the Harbor album, disenchanted with the travel, recreational drug use, and female groupies.
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Dan Peek renounced drugs and alcohol, renewed his Christian faith, and began to seek a different artistic direction than Beckley or Bunnell.
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Dan Peek waited five years before releasing a second solo album, 1984's Doer of the Word, which hit number 2 in the Christian charts.
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Dan Peek spent much of the 1990s in semi-retirement, occasionally recording music at his home in Bodden Town, Grand Cayman Island.
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Dan Peek released several solo projects and collaborated with Ken Marvin and Brian Gentry as "Peace" on three albums.
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Dan Peek published An American Band, an autobiography based on America's most successful period, and his own spiritual journey.
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Dan Peek died in his sleep of uremic pericarditis on July 24,2011, at the age of 60 at his home in Farmington, Missouri.