Career
And wrote a substantial quantity of the material on The Orchestra"s Number Rewind album. Troyer was born in Elkhart, Indiana. He has appeared as a session musician and backing vocalist on albums by such artists as John Lennon (Double Fantasy), Bonnie Tyler (Faster Than the Speed of Night, Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire, "Total Eclipse of the Heart"), Roseanna Vitro (Reaching for the Moon), Jim Steinman (Bad for Good), James Taylor, Carly Simon, Julian Lennon, Billy Joel (An Innocent Manitoba), Frankie Miller (Double Trouble), Rick Derringer, Ian Hunter (All of the Good Ones Are Taken), Aerosmith, Kiss, Garland Jeffreys, Lou Reed (New Sensations), Celine Dion and Meat Loaf (Couldn"t Have Said lieutenant Better).
In 1980, Troyer scored a minor solo hit with "Mirage." An accompanying album titled String of Pearls was recorded, but never officially released.
Thirteen years later, he did release a solo Civil Defense, Model Citizen. He also performed the song "This is the Love," which was featured in the 1989 film, Night Visitor.
Troyer has three daughters: Asia (born 1973), Lindsay (1983), and Lauren (1986).
