Robert E. Livingood (a.k.a. Sugarbear) was born in Detroit in 1970. In his childhood apartment, even the lullabies were sung to the tune of Barry White and the MC5 and so his ear was trained accordingly. His mother was an opera singer who ended up working in an auto factory, his sister sang in a local disco band, and his brother in law partied with Iggy. By age 10, Robert was a card carrying member of The Midnight Funk Association, presided over by legendary Detroit DJ, The Electrifying Mojo. He saw KISS as a little boy on their Destroyer tour, got his first punk haircut as a twelve year old in 1982, then started promoting music in his teens at the 404 Willis in Detroit's rough and radical Cass Corridor.He left Detroit in the 90s, became a Grizzly Bear biologist, moved to Alaska, built a cabin, started writing books, then began throwing parties in the land of the midnight sun. The music he spins today is unbound by style or era.