Hope Sandoval
(born June 24, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead singer for Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions.
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Early life and career
Hope Sandoval comes from a large
Mexican-American family in
East Los Angeles, California.
Hope attended
Mark Keppel High School. In 1986 she formed a
folk music duo called Going Home with Sylvia Gomez, and recorded one album produced by
David Roback which was never released.
Opal and Mazzy Star
Hope started to sing and perform with the band
Opal in the late 1980s alongside
David Roback, and originally played second fiddle to long-time Roback collaborator
Kendra Smith. At a gig in Hammersmith, UK, Smith stormed off stage after just a couple of songs, and the foundations of Mazzy Star were laid as Hope stepped up to take on the lead vocals. The two began writing together and renamed their
alternative/
dream pop band
Mazzy Star.
The first Mazzy Star album,
She Hangs Brightly
was released in 1990. While not a commercial success, this album did establish Hope and David as a unique band with a sound that has since been often imitated.
They had what many consider a surprise breakthrough hit single released in October 1993. "
Fade into You" — from their second album
So Tonight That I Might See
— was recorded one year before it became a success.
The tracks on the third Mazzy Star album,
Among My Swan
continue the sound and feel that the band established on the first two albums.
Post-Mazzy Star
After 1996, Hope began a career of working with other bands. She collaborated with a series of artists, including
Air,
Bert Jansch,
Death in Vegas,
Le Volume Courbe,
Richard X,
The Chemical Brothers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Twilight Singers,
Vetiver, and
Massive Attack. Hope sings on
The Chemical Brothers' "Asleep From Day" track on their
Surrender album. She will appear on
Massive Attack's next album,
Weather Underground (2010).
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Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Hope formed
The Warm Inventions and released their first album called
Bavarian Fruit Bread
, in 2001. This album sounds little different in terms of theme, voice, and instrumentation from that of her work with
Mazzy Star.
Subsequently, The Warm Inventions released three EPs but received very little commercial success, one video on
MTV, and very little radio play.
Hope recorded a song, "Wild Roses", for a compilation CD released by Air France titled
In The Air
(2008).
Hope and
The Warm Inventions will release their second album,
Through the Devil Softly
, on September 29, 2009.
In live performance, Hope prefers to play in near darkness with only a dim backlight.
References
- http://www.hopesandoval.com/