Dan Donovan (keyboardist)
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Dan Donovan
Dan Donovan or Daniel Donovan may refer to:*Dan Donovan , keyboardist for Big Audio Dynamite and Dreadzone*Dan Donovan , singer/songwriter, guitarist for Tribe of Dan*Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., Staten Island district attorney...

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Daniel "Dan" Donovan (born 10 August 1962) is a British
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

  keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 probably best known for being a member of Big Audio Dynamite
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Audio Dynamite are a British musical group formed in 1984 by the ex-guitarist and singer of the Clash, Mick Jones. The group are noted for their effective mixture of varied musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip hop, reggae, and funk...

. Following a brief stint in 1990 with The Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band that formed in 1980. After achieving early underground fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output in protest against their record company...

 he became a founding member of Dreadzone
Dreadzone
Dreadzone are a British band whose music is an eclectic fusion of dub, reggae, techno, folk and rock. They have so far produced six studio albums and two live albums.-Career:...

. Although he officially left Dreadzone during the development of Zion Youth, he returned in 1996.

Donovan was named after his grandfather, Daniel Donovan through his father, also called Terence Daniel Donovan
Terence Donovan (photographer)
Terence Daniel Donovan was a British photographer and film director, best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s. He oversaw the music video to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible".Donovan was born in Stepney in the East End of London to Lilian Constance V...

, the photographer.
 
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