Hope Sandoval
| Hope Sandoval | |
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Performing in New York, 2010
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| Background information | |
| Born |
June 24, 1966 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Dream pop, psychedelic, alternative rock, folk rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, harmonica, percussion, glockenspiel, guitar, keyboards |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels | Rough Trade, Capitol, Rhymes of an Hour, Sanctuary, Nettwerk |
| Associated acts | Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, Opal, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Massive Attack |
| Website | hopesandoval |
| Notable instruments | |
| Headless tambourine | |
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. Sandoval has toured and collaborated with other artists, including Massive Attack, for whom she sang "Paradise Circus" on the 2010 album Heligoland, and "The Spoils" on the 2016 eponymous single.
Hope Sandoval grew up in a Mexican American family in East Los Angeles, California. She attended Mark Keppel High School. In 1986, she formed the folk music duo Going Home with Sylvia Gomez and sent a demo tape to David Roback. He contacted the duo and suggested that he would "play guitar for you guys". The material recorded by Gomez, Sandoval and Roback has yet to be released.
Sandoval performed with the band Opal in the late 1980s alongside David Roback and long-time Roback collaborator Kendra Smith. After Smith's abrupt departure during a tour of the UK (hurling her guitar to the floor at the Hammersmith gig), Sandoval took over lead vocals. At the end of the tour, Roback and Sandoval began writing together and formed the alternative rock band Mazzy Star.
The first Mazzy Star album, She Hangs Brightly, was released in 1990. While not a commercial success, this album did establish Mazzy Star as a band with a unique sound. The band had a surprise breakthrough hit single released in October 1993. "Fade into You" – from its second album So Tonight That I Might See – was recorded one year before it became a success. There is a continuity between the sounds and moods established on Mazzy Star's first two albums and its third, Among My Swan.
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