Ken Owen (born Kenneth Owen, 23 April 1970, Billinge, Merseyside) is an English drummer. He was born in Billinge, and grew up in Gayton, Merseyside. He is best known as one of the founding members of Carcass, for which he also handled some of the vocals.[1] After the band broke up in 1995, he started Blackstar, along with two other Carcass members.[2] In February 1999, he suffered from a brain haemorrhage at home and spent ten months in hospital slowly emerging from a coma, making it impossible at the time for him to continue playing the drums.[3]
More recently, he has started playing drums again, but mostly makes music using the computer software program Reason. In 2008, he joined Carcass on stage at the Wacken Open Air festival, Damnation Festival, 2009 at Bloodstock Open Air and in 2010 at Vagos Open Air to play a short drum solo.
He is currently a student at the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in Nottingham.
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Owen, Ken |
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Owen, Kenneth |
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23 April 1970 |
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Billinge, Merseyside, England |
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