David Sancious
| David Sancious | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 30, 1953 Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States |
| Genres | Alternative rock, jazz, jazz fusion, classical, blues rock, funk |
| Occupation(s) | Instrumentalist |
| Instruments | Keyboards, guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes, clavinet, Hammond organ, synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, Minimoog |
| Associated acts | Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band |
| Website | davidsancious |
David Sancious (born November 30, 1953 in Asbury Park, New Jersey) is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on the 1992 album Human Touch. Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and guitarist. He left the E Street Band in 1974 to form his own band, Tone, and released several albums. He subsequently became a popular session and touring musician, most notably for Stanley Clarke, Narada Michael Walden, Zucchero Fornaciari, Peter Gabriel, and Sting among many others. In 2014, Sancious was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band.
Sancious began to learn classical piano at seven and by eleven he had taught himself guitar. He was only in his teens when he first became involved in the Asbury Park music scene. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he played in various bands that included Springsteen and future members of The E Street Band, as well as Southside Johnny and Bill Chinnock. These bands included Glory Road, Dr. Zoom & The Sonic Boom, The Bruce Springsteen Band and The Sundance Blues Band.
In January 1972, Sancious moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he worked at Alpha Studios as a studio musician doing jingles and sessions. While there he met Ernest Carter. In June 1972 Springsteen asked him to play keyboards on his debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. However, when Springsteen began touring with what is now considered the unofficial start of the E Street Band in October 1972, Sancious was not with them, having in July 1972 returned to Richmond and Alpha Studios, and recorded some demos with Carter and Garry Tallent. (Producer/songwriter Wes Farrell owned the rights to these demos and in 1976 he released them as David Sancious, without permission.)
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