Fernando Saunders
Encyclopedia
Fernando Saunders is a musician, performer, vocalist and bass player from Detroit, Michigan
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, Joan Baez
, Slash
, Tori Amos
, Jimmy Page
, Luciano Pavarotti
and Jeff Beck
. He is also a long-time collaborator with Lou Reed
and Kip Hanrahan
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Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
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Biography
Fernando Saunders has performed all around the world with music legends such as Marianne FaithfullMarianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
, Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
, Slash
Slash (musician)
Saul Hudson , known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N'...
, Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
, Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...
, Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti
right|thumb|Luciano Pavarotti performing at the opening of the Constantine Palace in [[Strelna]], 31 May 2003. The concert was part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of [[St...
and Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
. He is also a long-time collaborator with Lou Reed
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
and Kip Hanrahan
Kip Hanrahan
Kip Hanrahan is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist.-Biography:Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an Irish-Jewish family. He has an unusual role in the albums released under his name, one which he has analogized to that of a film...
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With Kip Hanrahan
- Beautiful Scars (2007)
- Piñero SoundtrackPiñeroPiñero is a 2001 biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican poet and playwright Miguel Piñero, starring Benjamin Bratt as the titular character. It was written and directed by the Cuban filmmaker, Leon Ichaso. It premiered at the Montreal Film Festival on 31 August 2001...
(2002) - TendernessTenderness (album)Tenderness is a dark experimental [Latin Jazz meets Downtown Music] recording under the musical direction of Kip Hanrahan.-Track listing:#'...Faith In The Pants, Not In The Prick...' - 5:37...
(1990)
With Lou Reed
- Berlin: Live at St. Ann's WarehouseBerlin: Live At St. Ann's WarehouseBerlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse is a concert film and live album by Lou Reed released in 2008. The concert film was directed by Julian Schnabel, live at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY during five nights in December 2006...
(2008) - Animal SerenadeAnimal SerenadeAnimal Serenade is a Lou Reed live album recorded in Los Angeles at the Wiltern Theatre in 2003 after The Raven. The show features a drummer-less band . Reed delivers dramatic readings of some of his most compelling work...
(2004) - The Raven (2003)
- Ecstasy (2000)
- Perfect Night: Live in LondonPerfect Night: Live in LondonPerfect Night: Live in London is an intimate live album by Lou Reed recorded during the Meltdown '97 festival. It includes a cover of The Velvet Underground's "I'll Be Your Mirror", originally sung by Nico. The cover photography was taken by Timothy Green-Sanders...
(1998) - Set the Twilight ReelingSet the Twilight ReelingSet the Twilight Reeling is the seventeenth solo album by rock and roll singer Lou Reed.The cover art is by Stefan Sagmeister. The CD case sold with the album was a dark purple/blue hue, making the cover look like a dark blue picture of Reed's face; the bright yellow aspect and the "rays" of the...
(1996) - MistrialMistrial (album)Mistrial is the fourteenth solo album by rock and roll musician Lou Reed. A music video was created for the song "No Money Down" that featured an animatronic Lou Reed singing to the song. At the end of the video, the animatronic starts to tear itself apart...
(1986) - New SensationsNew SensationsNew Sensations is the thirteenth solo album by Lou Reed.When this album was released, critics and listeners alike took note of a change in the songs as being more upbeat and fun than much of Reed's prior work....
(1984) - Live in ItalyLive in Italy (Lou Reed album)Live In Italy is an album by Lou Reed recorded live in Verona and Rome on September 7 and 10, 1983 by the Rolling Stones Mobile Unit. It was issued on vinyl only in Germany and Japan. At the time, Reed and his band were on a world tour to promote the album, Legendary Hearts...
(1984) - Legendary HeartsLegendary HeartsLegendary Hearts is the twelfth solo album by rock and roll musician Lou Reed. It was dedicated to Reed's then wife, Sylvia.-Side one:#"Legendary Hearts" - 3:23#"Don't Talk to Me About Work" - 2:07#"Make Up My Mind" - 2:48#"Martial Law" - 3:53...
(1983) - The Blue MaskThe Blue MaskThe Blue Mask is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter Lou Reed. It was the first album released after Reed left Arista Records and returned to RCA. It returns to the stripped-down sound of his previous group, the Velvet Underground, with only guitars, bass and drums...
(1982)
Solo
- Cashmere Dreams (Grudge/BMG)
- The Spin (A&M)
- I Will Break Your Fall (Summit/Sony Red) (2007)
- Plant a Seed (EMI) (2010)