Leo Sidran is a musician

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, composer, performer, and producer

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 whose credits

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 include producing the Oscar-winning soundtrack

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 for the movie The Motorcycle Diaries

The Motorcycle Diaries (film)

At the end of the film, after his sojourn at the leper colony, Guevara confirms his nascent egalitarian, anti-authority impulses, while making a birthday toast, which is also his first political speech. In it he evokes a pan-Latin American identity that transcends both the arbitrary boundaries of...

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Sidran began his career

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 in music early. Having learned to play the drums from funk

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-jazz

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 percussionist Clyde Stubblefield

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, he toured as a teenager with veteran rock star Steve Miller

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The Steve Miller Band recorded Sidran's songs before he had graduated from high school. Miller, a longtime friend and collaborator with his father, Ben Sidran

Ben Sidran

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, taught Sidran to play the guitar

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. He and Joy Dragland are heard on Joy and the Boy

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Joy and the Boy is an American musical duo consisting of singer-songwriter Joy Dragland and musician/producer Leo Sidran . Their first performance as a duo was in Madison, Wisconsin at a 2000 political rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol in front of 30,000 people...

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In 2004 they released Paradise

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on Nardis Records

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Nardis Records was formed in 2003 by Ben Sidran and his son Leo. It is a subsidiary of Liquid8. Most of its releases are in the jazz genre, but they also release albums in the genres of world music, funk and electronic. It also has a compilation series called Nardis Music Presents which features...

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Discography

• Depleting Moral Legacy (1999)
• L Sid
  L Sid
  L Sid is the second solo album by Leo Sidran. It was released on February 15, 2000 on Go Jazz Records. It was the first album by Sidran dually composed in English and Castilian.-Track listing:All of the songs were written by Leo Sidran....
  
  (2000)
• Bohemia (2004)
• Paradise
  Paradise (Joy and the Boy album)
  Paradise is an album by the American musical duo Joy and the Boy. It was first released in Europe in 2001, but was released in the U.S. until 2004. Joy said that she wrote the songs for this album in her bedroom and never expected them to end up on a record...
  
  (2004)
• El Elefante