Marko DeSantis
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Marko DeSantis |
| Also known as | Marko 72 |
| Genres | Pop punk, Alternative rock, Powerpop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, dj, educator, writer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Fearless, V2/Artemis, Suburban Home, Avex (Japan), Sideout (Japan) |
| Associated acts | Sugarcult, Bad Astronaut, The Playing Favorites, The Lapdancers, Popsicko, The Ataris, Lost Kittenz, Nerf Herder, Swingin' Utters, Ridel High |
| Website | sugarcult |
Marko DeSantis is a music professional best known as the lead guitarist for American modern rock band Sugarcult; he grew up in Santa Barbara, California.
With Sugarcult he has made 3 studio records, 2 DVDs, 1 live record, and toured internationally since 2001. Sugarcult have headlined tours, played many notable festivals (Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, Summersonic, Warped Tour, Voodoo Fest, Soundwaves, etc.), and were the opening act on Green Day's "American Idiot" USA/Japan tours, and Blink 182's final tour before reforming to name a few. Tim Pagnotta asked him to join Sugarcult after meeting him at a Superdrag concert in 1999.
Currently, each member of Sugarcult is involved with other projects: bassist Airin with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and The New No. 2 featuring Dhani Harrison son of Beatles' guitarist George Harrison, Pagnotta produced the major label debut by Neon Trees & co-wrote their hit singles "Animal" and "Everybody Talks" ; drummer Kenny Livingston bikes across America for charity www.kennydoit.org and started Americana band Good Man Down.
DeSantis has had two side-projects with Lagwagon singer Joey Cape; Bad Astronaut and The Playing Favorites whose debut release "I Remember When I was Pretty..." features Marko singing lead vocals on 2 tracks he wrote ("Futuring" and "Whole Lotta Nothin"). He has also played in Nerf Herder, Swingin' Utters, The Lapdancers, The Ataris, Popsicko, Lost Kittenz. In 2013 Marko joined Ridel High on guitar for select shows; he had signed Ridel High to My Records, the Joey Cape owned indie-label he ran in the mid-90's.
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