Crispian Mills

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Crispian Mills (born 18 January 1973 as Crispian John Boulting; spiritual name Krishna Kanta Das) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film producer.

Mills has been active since 1988, he is best known as the frontman of Kula Shaker's psychedelic indie rock band.

Following the band's breakup in 1999, he stayed with Columbia Records (a Sony BMG affiliate) and toured with a group of session players (including a support slot for Robbie Williams) under the name Pi, but no official studio recordings were released in full.

Mills departed for a short time after the label rejected the Pi album, but the band reformed as frontman and lead guitarist for the back-to-basics rock band The Jeevas, who disbanded in 2005 to make way for a new Kula Shaker, who released their third album Strangefolk in 2007.

Kula Shaker's album Pilgrims Progress was released in 2010.

With the introduction of the latest K 2.0, the band commemorated the 20th anniversary of their album K.

Mills performed at the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom for a sold-out tour to mark the band's centennial. Mills is the uncle of actor Hayley Mills and director Roy Boulting, the grandson of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, nephew of Juliet Mills and director Jonathan Mills, and halfbrother to Jason Lawson.

Early life

Mills was born in Hammersmith, England, on January 18, 1973. Hayley Mills' mother, Hayley Mills, had made her name as a child actress in the 1960s and met Mills' father, Roy Boulting, on the set of British comedy The Family Way. Boulting, 33 years old and just five years younger than her father, Sir John Mills. In 1971, the two met. The family lived on Belgrade Road in Hampton, London's south-west, and had an additional home at Cobstone Windmill in Ibstone, Buckinghamshire. The marriage did not last, and the pair split in 1975, followed by an official divorce in 1977. Hayley's second son, Jason, was pregnant again by actress Leigh Lawson at this time.

The new family shared their time in Coventry's Hampton and Lawson's Coventry home. Hayley's career was suspended to raise her sons during their childhood years, a sacrifice that Mills values highly today. In shining armour, the young Mills believed his grandfather to be a true knight. Sir John can also be blamed for the introduction of Mills by performing old cowboy songs to lure him to sleep as a child. Mills will continue to cover "Rio Grande" with his post-Kula Shaker band The Jeevas. Mills says, "I count myself to be very fortunate" because she was raised by people who are both very open-minded and who are clearly in love with the arts. If I've inherited anything from my family, it's the love of the creative process and the knowledge of the privilege that it represents. My father's words came from him as well... I couldn't get out of it and never felt I wanted to."

Mills went to many colleges, some private, some state-run, as his mother used to travel for film work. "When I was in private schools, they called me 'common,' and when I was in state schools, they called me 'posh.' "I was so skeptical about all these terms."

Given his history, Richard Attenborough and Sir Laurence Olivier were among family friends, but Mills has commented that he was rarely star struck because they were "just people" to one used to the company of well-known actors. As a result of all of this and his mother's experiences as a child actor, the young Mills decided that filmmaking would be his next step. "I grew up with pictures of my mother being very young, whether you were standing with John Wayne or Walt Disney." That did something to my head; I was under the impression that it was just normal. Here's what happens: you're getting to 12, and they're making movies. I only knew it wasn't the case when I got to 12."

Mills first began to investigate notions of spirituality and mortality around this time. "I never had a Road-to-Damascus" he recalls. "I woke up one night, in bed, and realized I was going to die." I don't mean 'tomorrow' or 'in a year.' It wasn't a prediction. It was just recently that death was announced in full. I remember being curious about it at the time. "Something was wrong with me," says the girl. Mills borrowed the Mahbhrata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, from his mother to address his new thoughts about life and death. He also went vegetarian, but admits that this was largely due to meeting "a very attractive girl who was vegetarian."

Mills had been exposed to a variety of genres of music throughout his youth. Peter, Paul and Mary's "Puff, the Magic Dragon," one of his earliest musical memories, "summed up [his] childhood." Mills, who had been uninspired by the then-current music scene, found he could identify with older albums, which he felt had integrity and genuine youth. However, he managed to beat out "Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants, the first single he ever bought, due to its drama and longevity. The Ramones' first purchase, "Too Tough to Die," was his first purchase on albums. Nevertheless, it was hearing "You Really Got Me" by English rock band The Kinks that inspired him to become a guitarist. "It was like walking into a temple, a moment when my life was turned upside down," he says. "I'd grown up listening to Boy George and Duran Duran on the radio. But I gotta have me.

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All I wanted to do after that was brilliant, as soon as I picked up a guitar. "I worked, I read books, and I was a guitar worshipper." Mills also discovered Deep Purple through the guitar, and has cited their lead guitarist Ritchie Blackmore as a major influence on his style. Alonza Bevan, a future bandmate on Thames College, met him at Richmond upon Thames College.

Mills then delves into psychedelic music, and the bulk of his A-Level years were spent on LSD and watching The Doors. Acid gave the teen Mills a change of perspective, but he soon learned that drugs alone would not provide him with the illumination he wanted. Mills was eventually convinced that there were other ways to alter one's mind after watching close friends go "over the edge" on hallucinogens.

Personal life

Since 1995, Mills has been married to former model Josephine "Joe" Mills (née Branfoot). Keshava, Hari, and Charlie, three children, lived in Bath for a year.

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Career

In an interview with a New York reporter, Mills said, "You can sing about things like premature teenage sex and the unfamous universal truth" or even the eternal, universal truth. At an outdoor festival in England, his band premiered "Govinda" in honor of this Hindu philosophy. "We've made it to the Hare Krishna stage, and we're just jamming on 'Govinda'." Mills toured India for the first time with his mystical friend and tour guide Mathura, while the other band members stayed behind in England. He was initiated in the Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition in 1997 and is identified as Krishna Kantha Dashya. He translated a book by Bhaktivinoda Thakur's English into English from Bengali and named Siksastaka, an esoteric bhakti journal, in the same year.

Mills became known in the United Kingdom as the lead singer-songwriter in the 1990s Indie/rock band Kula Shaker. Kula Shaker's debut album since Oasis' Definitely Maybe in the United Kingdom, and the band had a string of UK hit singles, peaking in 1997's 'Hush', which peaked at No. 58. There are two there.

Mills appeared on the Pro Prosecu's third album, "Narayan," for nine-minute breakbeat song "Narayan."

Following Kula Shaker's death in 1999, he spent two years exploring new musical styles, appearing briefly in the United Kingdom as part of a band called Pi. Mills left his UK record company in 2001 after a rift over the consistency of an album planned for release.

Andy Nixon and Dan McKinna's debut as a member of The Jeevas, a new band formed in early 2002, resulting in modest success, with the first album selling over 100,000 copies in Japan. Whereast other ticket sales were modest, the band remained a hot ticket in smaller UK venues. Despite a large fan base and burgeoning hardcore fanbase, The Jeevas broke in early 2005, with Nixon and McKinna forming The Magic Bullet Band, a new band.

During 2004- The Jeevas and a reformed Kula Shaker (without original keyboardist Jay Darlington) contributed to a charity album with the Californian School of Braja, which Mills masterminded. Kula Shaker's sessions were so good that the band decided to reformed permanently. With the addition of new keyboardist Harry Broadbent and the publication of an EP Revenge of the King, the group returned to the live action in the United Kingdom. Strangefolk's third album was released in 2007.

Mills also released his fourth album, Kula Shaker, Pilgrims Progress, in June 2010.

Kula Shaker's latest album K 2.0 was released in early 2016. In February and March 2016, the band appeared on a largely sold-out European tour. They toured around Europe, Asia, and North America for the remainder of the year.

Their debut album K's sold-out 20th anniversary tour of their debut album K, which was followed by a sell-out in 2016.

Mills has announced another break for the band due to his involvement in new film projects.

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