★ HIGH HOPES
Levara
Fusing rock-star genes with synth-rock jams, this LA trio have come for our stadiums.
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THERE IS NOTHING more addictive, says Trev Lukather, than the roar of a sell-out stadium. “When I was twelve years old and had just picked up a guitar,” recalls the Levara gunslinger, “Toto had reunited with Bobby Kimball and my dad [Steve Lukather] took me on tour to Europe. Next thing you know, he brought me up onstage without me knowing and told me, ‘Play whatever you want’. Dad had to hold the guitar strap because I was too frickin’ short. But I had 20,000 people scream afterwards. And then I was hooked.”