Sun King Rising is a professional moniker/alter ego of an American geneticist and biomedical research scientist, John Blangero for his music albums.
[2] At age five, John Blangero began taking piano lessons in New Castle, Pennsylvania and developed an interest in music.
[6] In the 2000s, Blangero started playing live for blues bands in San Antonio, Texas.
[7] In 2020, Blangero hired Steven "Ace" Acker, a member of a 1970s band named LAW, to produce his first album Delta Tales, which was released on October 2, 2020.
[9] On October 1, 2022, Sun King Rising released another album, Signs & Wonders.