Rick Livingstone (vocals)
Craig Zurba (keyboards)
Robert Smart (guitar)
Andre Kunkel (bass)
Dave Allan (drums)
Troy Reid (guitar, drums, vocals; replaced Smart, Allan, Livingstone)
Zurba and Kunkel were songwriting partners as early as the late '70's and picked up Smart as their work progressed. In 1982 the trio did sessions for a Nancy Nash album. Within a year they had fleshed out their act with singer Livingstone and drummer Dave Allan and signed a management deal with Brian Wadsworth.
With a self-produced video entered in the Video Culture Canada international video contest the band takes top prize. They attract the attention of CBS (April/Blackwood) publishing at the awards show. They sign with CBS Songs who shopped the band's original material to Virgin Records' newest office in Toronto. Agent were signed to Virgin and their self-titled debut album wass released in 1986 to good reviews and lukewarm sales due mostly to the fact that the President of Virgin Canada quit the label during the week that the album was released and no label leadership is evident during the 9 months following the release.
With freedom from their Virgin Records deal the band managed to re-record their debut effort and release it on Escape Music in Europe -- much to the joy of AOR fanatics worldwide. In 1998 the band released a brand new effort called 'Evidence' also on Escape Music.
With notes from Craig Zurba
Singles
1986 I Can’t Hold Back/Can’t Stop (Virgin) VS-1358
1986 She Trusted Me (Virgin)
1986 All I Hear Is A Heartbeat (Virgin)
Albums
1986 Agent (Virgin)
1996 Agent [re-recorded] (Escape)
1998 Evidence (Escape)
Video
Compilation Tracks
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