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Dan Zanes
Daniel Edgerly Zanes (born November 8, 1961) is an American rock, folk, and children's musician. He was a member of the 1980s band the Del Fuegos, the frontman of the group Dan Zanes and Friends, and currently performs with his wife, Claudia Eliaza Zanes, as Dan + Claudia.
Zanes's father was a teacher, as well as a poet and writer. He is brother to fellow musician and former bandmate Warren Zanes.
Zanes grew up in the "white monoculture" of New Hampshire. He became interested in music as a young child, and recalls being introduced to the music of American folk musician Lead Belly at age seven, after getting his first library card. Other early music inspiration included Woody Guthrie, Ella Jenkins, and Pete Seeger. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts for two years.
Zanes attended Oberlin College, where he met bandmate Tom Lloyd.
The Del Fuegos played in lofts, bars, warehouses, small art galleries, clubs, barns, college dining halls, fraternity houses, gymnasiums, auditoriums, and, finally, big theaters.
Rolling Stone named the Del Fuegos "Best New Band" in 1984.[citation needed] With the Del Fuegos, Zanes made several records – The Longest Day (1984), Boston, Mass. (1985), Stand Up (1987), Smoking in the Fields (1989) – and had a hit single, "Don't Run Wild" .
After Zanes, his wife at the time, Paula Greif, and their young daughter moved to New York City, Zanes began playing music with a group of other fathers that he had met in West Village playgrounds. This informal group became the Wonderland String Band, which played at parks and parties and recorded a tape of songs at Zanes' home.[citation needed]
The tape was a hit locally – i.e. on the playgrounds where he and his daughter played – and Zanes realized that he liked making music that families could enjoy together, as opposed to music that is just for children or just for adults. So, he added a small number of women to his band, renamed it the Rocket Ship Revue, and began making a full-length homemade album, enlisting the help of some people he had met when he was a Del Fuego – Sheryl Crow, Suzanne Vega, and Simon Kirke, the drummer for Bad Company.[citation needed]
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Dan Zanes
Daniel Edgerly Zanes (born November 8, 1961) is an American rock, folk, and children's musician. He was a member of the 1980s band the Del Fuegos, the frontman of the group Dan Zanes and Friends, and currently performs with his wife, Claudia Eliaza Zanes, as Dan + Claudia.
Zanes's father was a teacher, as well as a poet and writer. He is brother to fellow musician and former bandmate Warren Zanes.
Zanes grew up in the "white monoculture" of New Hampshire. He became interested in music as a young child, and recalls being introduced to the music of American folk musician Lead Belly at age seven, after getting his first library card. Other early music inspiration included Woody Guthrie, Ella Jenkins, and Pete Seeger. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts for two years.
Zanes attended Oberlin College, where he met bandmate Tom Lloyd.
The Del Fuegos played in lofts, bars, warehouses, small art galleries, clubs, barns, college dining halls, fraternity houses, gymnasiums, auditoriums, and, finally, big theaters.
Rolling Stone named the Del Fuegos "Best New Band" in 1984.[citation needed] With the Del Fuegos, Zanes made several records – The Longest Day (1984), Boston, Mass. (1985), Stand Up (1987), Smoking in the Fields (1989) – and had a hit single, "Don't Run Wild" .
After Zanes, his wife at the time, Paula Greif, and their young daughter moved to New York City, Zanes began playing music with a group of other fathers that he had met in West Village playgrounds. This informal group became the Wonderland String Band, which played at parks and parties and recorded a tape of songs at Zanes' home.[citation needed]
The tape was a hit locally – i.e. on the playgrounds where he and his daughter played – and Zanes realized that he liked making music that families could enjoy together, as opposed to music that is just for children or just for adults. So, he added a small number of women to his band, renamed it the Rocket Ship Revue, and began making a full-length homemade album, enlisting the help of some people he had met when he was a Del Fuego – Sheryl Crow, Suzanne Vega, and Simon Kirke, the drummer for Bad Company.[citation needed]
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