June 24, 2011

Canada’s No 1 recording artist, topping the charts for the second successive week, lives off the grid with his family.

Chad VanGallen‘s solar-powered home in Alberta has a recording studio, and his wife works in the house as well. For years, he made music in his cramped Calgary basement and cultivated a hermit-like persona in the process. When he needed a break he jumped in his RV, a converted bus,  But his studio — and music, for that matter, went above ground in 2009 after 10 years of literally underground sounds…