Forest Sun

Forest Sun is an American troubadour and songwriter. In 1999, he started his own label and named it Painted Sun Records. The name was inspired by the small, dingy, smelly, dark room in which he was living in San Francisco. It only had one window that opened into the wall next door in a foggy depressing neighborhood near Clement Street. Sun remembers: “Looking in the morning, all I could see was gray foggy air and the wall next door so I painted a sun on a piece of cardboard and nailed it to the next house so I could see that when I got up. That’s how Painted Sun Records got its name.” That same year, after recording his first album, Not Afraid he went to Europe and played on Dam Square as part of the rally for the Tibetan Freedom...