Kanude

Authentic lyric-driven songs since 2008. Texas-forged, Nashville based.

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“Kanude’s vocals are an unbelievably fluctuating blend of Roy Orbison and Glenn Danzig, providing listeners with that old-school sound mixed in a blender with a little rockabilly and a good amount of attitude.”
- Travis Sabaitis, Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion

Since the late 90s, he has produced and released records primarily under the Kanude and Val Holler monikers, and more recently as LightBody Sound. His music has been featured in HBO's "True Blood," NBC/Universal’s “The Tonight Show,” ​as part of the original programming for the inaugural New York Fringe Festival in 1998 (in which he performed in a crazy downtown rock opera "One Arm Red: Gospel Truth Family Hour" which he co-created), and early on as the co-composer of Robert Rodriguez'​ critically acclaimed, low-budget feature film debut "El Mariachi."​

From 1993 to 1995 in New York City, he was a contributing songwriter/founder and performer with post-new wave band Mind Over Matter and later he has fronted his own Val Holler and Kanude recording and live projects while based in California, Berlin (Germany), Texas, Oregon and currently Nashville.