Devics

Devics (pronounced like "dee-vix") is vocalist Sara Lov and multi-instrumentalist and sometimes singer Dustin O'Halloran, a musical duo from Los Angeles who found a home in Italy after signing to the UK label, Bella Union.

The story of Devics begins with the birth of Sara Lov in Hawaii. Raised by her mother in Los Angeles after the divorce of her parents, she had a fairly ordinary childhood until the age of four when she was kidnapped by her father – a man she describes as “a very interesting, intellectual, creative, artistic person,” but also “a violent sociopath” – and forcibly relocated to Israel. Destined to grow up without a mother like a surprising number of rock n’ roll greats, Sara Lov lived under the shadow of an unbalanced international fugitive from justice. A decade before a kindly uncle brought about her repatriation to the United States, Lov foresaw her salvation in music: “When I was six, I said ‘I’m going to be a singer.’”

Dustin O’Halloran, had an equally pleasant early childhood in Los Angeles, distinguished primarily by the fact that he showed himself to be a musical prodigy on the piano at the age of six, finding his calling at the very same age as his future partner. Things changed when illness incapacitated his mother and necessitated the young O’Halloran’s move to his father’s home on the remote Hawaiian island of Kauai. And so the creative core of Devics grew up on opposite ends of the globe, the first abducted and taken to the Middle East, the second reluctantly cast off to a tropical island.

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