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Hope Sandoval

{{Short description|American singer (born 1966)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Hope Sandoval

| image = Hope_Sandoval.jpg

| caption = Sandoval performing in New York, 2010

| background = solo_singer

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|6|24}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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| instrument =Vocals, percussion

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| occupation = {{flatlist|

  • Singer
  • songwriter

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| years_active = 1986–present

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| website = {{URL|hopesandoval.com/}}

| current_member_of = Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions

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Hope Sandoval (born June 24, 1966){{cite web|url=https://rockandrollglobe.com/rock/alternative-rock/hope-sandoval-springs-eternal/|title=Hope Sandoval Springs Eternal|last=Sullivan|first=Jim|date=June 24, 2021|website=rockandrollglobe.com|access-date=March 10, 2023}} is an American singer, songwriter, and the lead singer of Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions.{{cite web |title=The Official Website of Hope Sandoval|url=http://www.hopesandoval.com/bio.shtml|publisher=HopeSandoval.com|access-date=July 22, 2020}} She has also toured and collaborated with other artists, including the Jesus and Mary Chain and Massive Attack, for whom she sang "Paradise Circus" on the 2010 album Heligoland{{cite web |title=BYT Interview: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions|url=http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/interviews/bty-interview-hope-sandoval-the-warm-inventions/|publisher=Brightest Young Things|access-date=May 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124080911/http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/interviews/bty-interview-hope-sandoval-the-warm-inventions/|archive-date=November 24, 2009|url-status=dead}} and the 2016 single "The Spoils".{{cite web |last=Yoo|first=Noah|date=July 29, 2016|title=Massive Attack Release "Come Near Me" New Video, Plus Hope Sandoval Collaboration|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/67161-watch-massive-attack-and-ghostpoets-new-video-come-near-me/|website=Pitchfork|publisher=Condé Nast|access-date=July 29, 2016}}

Early life

Sandoval was born June 24, 1966,{{cite web |last=Deming |first=Mark |title=Hope Sandoval Biography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sandoval-mn0000265771 |website=AllMusic |access-date=March 21, 2025}} in Los Angeles to Mexican-American parents, and raised in East Los Angeles. Her father was a butcher and her mother worked for a potato chip manufacturing company. She has one sibling and seven half-siblings. Her parents separated when she was a child and she was raised primarily by her mother.{{cite news |last=McLean|first=Craig|date=October 11, 2001|title=I want to be alone|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4726021/I-want-to-be-alone.html|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=June 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506150614/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4726021/I-want-to-be-alone.html|archive-date=May 6, 2021|url-status=live|url-access=limited}}

She attended Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra,{{cite web |last=Hilburn|first=Robert|date=July 22, 1990|title=Mazzy Star: Shining 'Brightly' : The personal visions of David Roback and Hope Sandoval have fueled a fast-moving album on the alternative-rock charts|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-22-ca-1066-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211101124/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-22-ca-1066-story.html|archive-date=February 11, 2020|url-status=live}} but struggled socially and academically, and was placed in special education classes. She began to forgo her classes, instead staying home and listening to records. "It's just like anybody else{{emdash}}some people, most people don't wanna go to school. They just don't want to", Sandoval recalled. "I was just somebody who got away with it… There wasn't really anyone watching". She eventually dropped out of high school.

Sandoval took an interest in music at an early age, and at age 13 was particularly influenced by the Rolling Stones. In 1986, she formed the folk music duo Going Home with Sylvia Gomez and sent a demo tape to David Roback. He contacted the duo and suggested that he would "play guitar for you guys".{{cite web |last=Gavan|first=David|date=December 29, 2009|title=The Mother Of Warm Invention – A Hope Sandoval Interview|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/03452-the-mother-of-warm-invention-a-hope-sandoval-interview|website=The Quietus|access-date=December 10, 2016}} The material recorded by Gomez, Sandoval and Roback has yet to be released.

Career

=Opal and Mazzy Star (1988–1996)=

Sandoval performed with the band Opal in the late 1980s alongside David Roback and long-time Roback collaborator Kendra Smith. After Smith's abrupt departure during a tour of the UK (hurling her guitar to the floor at the Hammersmith gig), Sandoval took over lead vocals. At the end of the tour, Roback and Sandoval began writing together and formed the alternative rock band Mazzy Star.

The first Mazzy Star album, She Hangs Brightly, was released in 1990. While not a commercial success, this album did establish Mazzy Star as a band with a unique sound.

The band had a surprise breakthrough hit single released in October 1993. "Fade into You"{{emdash}}from the band's second album So Tonight That I Might See{{emdash}}was recorded one year before it became a success.

There is a continuity between the sounds and moods established on Mazzy Star's first two albums and the band's third, Among My Swan. Mazzy Star went on hiatus in 1997.

=Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions (2000–2010)=

Sandoval formed the Warm Inventions in 2000 and released her first solo album Bavarian Fruit Bread in 2001,{{cite web |last=Bento|first=Debbie|date=October 30, 2001|title=CD REVIEWS: Baby Blue Soundcrew, Lenny Kravitz, Matthew Good Band and many more|url=http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2001/10/3001.cfm|website=Chart Attack|access-date=June 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011122060052/http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2001/10/3001.cfm|archive-date=November 22, 2001|url-status=usurped}} which she recorded with My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig. The album differed in terms of theme, voice, and instrumentation from that of her work with Mazzy Star. Bert Jansch plays guitar on two tracks, and the album features two covers, "Butterfly Mornings" from the film The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) and Jesus and Mary Chain's "Drop".{{cite news |date=November 22, 2001|title=Frozen Entrée – Page 1 – Music – Los Angeles|url=https://www.laweekly.com/2001-11-22/music/frozen-entr-e/|newspaper=LA Weekly|access-date=May 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925211247/https://www.laweekly.com/2001-11-22/music/frozen-entr-e/|archive-date=September 25, 2008|url-status=dead}} The Warm Inventions released two EPs, At the Doorway Again in 2000 and Suzanne in 2002 but did not win commercial success, with one video on MTV and little radio play. Sandoval recorded a song, "Wild Roses", for a compilation CD released by Air France, In the Air (2008).

Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions released their second album, Through the Devil Softly, on September 29, 2009.

Sandoval and her band were chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England. The group also played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York, in September 2010 at the request of the film director Jim Jarmusch.

=Mazzy Star re-formation (2011–2014)=

In 2009, Sandoval confirmed in an interview with Rolling Stone that Mazzy Star was still active: "It's true we're still together. We're almost finished [with the record]. But I have no idea what that means."{{cite magazine |last=O'Donnell|first=Kevin|date=July 6, 2009|title=Mazzy Star Crooner Readies Return With Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mazzy-star-crooner-readies-return-with-hope-sandoval-and-the-warm-inventions-20090706|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=October 24, 2011}} In October 2011, the group released the single "Common Burn"/"Lay Myself Down", their first material in 15 years.{{cite web |last=Cooper|first=Leonie|date=October 18, 2011|title=Mazzy Star return for first release in 15 years|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/mazzy-star-7-1286019|website=NME|access-date=September 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020134/https://www.nme.com/news/music/mazzy-star-7-1286019|archive-date=November 12, 2020|url-status=live}} The group stated that they had plans to release the album in 2012.{{cite web |last=Cooper|first=Leonie|date=November 2, 2011|title=Mazzy Star to release new album in 2012|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/mazzy-star-8-1279304|website=NME|access-date=September 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604202150/https://www.nme.com/news/music/mazzy-star-8-1279304|archive-date=June 4, 2022|url-status=live}} In July 2013, "California", the first single from the new album was released. The album, Seasons of Your Day, was released in September 2013.

David Roback died in Los Angeles on February 24, 2020, from cancer.{{cite news |last=Slotnik|first=Daniel E.|date=February 26, 2020|title=David Roback, 61, a Founder of the Band Mazzy Star, Is Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/arts/music/david-roback-dead.html|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=February 26, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200228071328/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/arts/music/david-roback-dead.html|archive-date=February 28, 2020|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Savage|first=Mark|date=February 26, 2020|title=Mazzy Star co-founder David Roback dies, aged 61|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51642346|publisher=BBC News|access-date=February 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227140933/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51642346|archive-date=February 27, 2020|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Yoo|first=Noah|date=February 25, 2020|title=Mazzy Star's David Roback Dead at 61|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/mazzy-stars-david-roback-dead-at-61/|website=Pitchfork|publisher=Condé Nast|access-date=February 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229001344/https://pitchfork.com/news/mazzy-stars-david-roback-dead-at-61/|archive-date=February 29, 2020|url-status=live}}

=Renewed solo activity (2016–present)=

On March 9, 2016, it was confirmed that Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions would release a 7-inch vinyl single titled "Isn't It True" for Record Store Day 2016.{{cite web |last=Sterdan|first=Darryl|date=April 8, 2016|title=Record Store Day 2016: The 25 biggest and best releases|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/08/record-store-day-2016-the-25-biggest-and-best-releases|newspaper=Toronto Sun|publisher=Postmedia Network|access-date=April 14, 2016}} The track also features Jim Putnam of Radar Bros.{{cite web |author=BrooklynVegan Staff|date=March 9, 2016|title=Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval releasing new album, but first a RSD limited 7|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/mazzy-stars-hope-sandoval-releasing-new-album-but-first-a-rsd-limited-7/|publisher=BrooklynVegan|access-date=April 14, 2016}} A music video for the song was released on April 19, and is dedicated to Richie Lee of Acetone.{{cite web |last=Minsker|first=Evan|date=April 19, 2016|title=Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval Shares "Isn't It True" Video: Watch|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/64311-mazzy-stars-hope-sandoval-shares-isnt-it-true-video-watch/|website=Pitchfork|publisher=Condé Nast|access-date=August 10, 2016}} The Warm Inventions' third studio album, Until the Hunter, was released on November 4 through the band's own independent record label, Tendril Tales.{{cite web |author=BrooklynVegan Staff|date=April 13, 2016|title=Tendril Tales is Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star's label; website launches, RSD release already on eBay|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/tendril-tales-is-hope-sandoval-of-mazzy-stars-label-website-launches-rsd-release-already-on-ebay/|publisher=BrooklynVegan|access-date=April 14, 2016}}{{cite magazine |last=Geslani|first=Michelle|date=March 28, 2016|title=Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions prep first album in seven years|url=https://consequence.net/2016/03/mazzy-stars-hope-sandoval-the-warm-inventions-prep-first-album-in-seven-years/|magazine=Consequence of Sound|access-date=April 14, 2016}} A second single from the album, "Let Me Get There" featuring Kurt Vile, was released on September 23.{{cite web |last=Sacher|first=Andrew|date=August 22, 2016|title=Kurt Vile sings on new Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions single|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/kurt-vile-sings-on-new-hope-sandoval-and-the-warm-inventions-single/|publisher=BrooklynVegan|access-date=September 1, 2016}}

Sandoval contributed vocals to "I Don't Mind" by Psychic Ills, which was released on March 29, 2016.{{cite web |last=Monroe|first=Jazz|date=March 29, 2016|title=Psychic Ills Announce New Album Inner Journey Out, Share Hope Sandoval Collaboration "I Don't Mind"|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/64455-psychic-ills-announce-new-album-inner-journey-out-share-hope-sandoval-collaboration-i-dont-mind/|website=Pitchfork|publisher=Condé Nast|access-date=September 1, 2016}}{{cite web |last=Barnes|first=Shane|date=March 29, 2016|title=Listen to Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval on new Psychic Ills track|url=http://flavorwire.com/568575/listen-to-mazzy-stars-hope-sandoval-on-new-pyschic-ills-track|website=Flavorwire|publisher=Flavorpill Media|access-date=September 1, 2016}} Four months later, Massive Attack released "The Spoils", which was her third collaboration with the band, following "Paradise Circus" and "Four Walls".{{cite web |last1=Yoo|first1=Noah|last2=Monroe|first2=Jazz|date=July 29, 2016|title=Massive Attack Release "Come Near Me" New Video, Plus Hope Sandoval Collaboration|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/67161-watch-massive-attack-and-ghostpoets-new-video-come-near-me/|website=Pitchfork|publisher=Condé Nast|access-date=July 31, 2016}}{{cite magazine |last=Josephs|first=Brian|date=July 29, 2016|title=Massive Attack Release the Brooding 'Come Near Me' and 'The Spoils'|url=http://www.spin.com/2016/07/massive-attack-ghostpoet-come-near-me-the-spoils-hope-sandoval/|magazine=Spin|publisher=SpinMedia|access-date=July 31, 2016}} The Spoils music video was released on August 9, starring actress Cate Blanchett.{{cite magazine |last=Kaye|first=Ben|date=August 9, 2016|title=Cate Blanchett stars in Massive Attack and Hope Sandoval's video for "The Spoils" — watch|url=https://consequence.net/2016/08/cate-blanchett-stars-in-massive-attack-and-hope-sandovals-video-for-the-spoils-watch/|magazine=Consequence of Sound|access-date=August 16, 2016}}

She covered "Big Boss Man" on Mercury Rev's 2019 album Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited.{{cite web |last=Rettig|first=James|date=December 11, 2018|title=Mercury Rev & Hope Sandoval – "Big Boss Man" (Bobbie Gentry Cover)|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2025794/mercury-rev-hope-sandoval-big-boss-man-bobbie-gentry-cover/music/|website=Stereogum}} Sandoval, along with artists such as Sting, Elton John, Dolly Parton, Eric Clapton and more, was featured on the 2024 reimagined duet version of Ghost on the Canvas, the 2011 farewell album of Glen Campbell who died in 2017.{{cite web | url=https://consequence.net/2024/03/hope-sandoval-glen-campbell-duet-the-long-walk-home/ | title=Hope Sandoval sings posthumous duet with Glen Campbell on new version of "The Long Walk Home" | date=March 15, 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/glen-campbell-duets-album-has-hope-sandoval-brian-wilson-a-guided-by-voices-cover/ | title=Glen Campbell Duets album has Hope Sandoval, Brian Wilson & a Guided by Voices cover }}

Musical and performance style

Sandoval's musical style is most often described as "sultry" dream pop driven by her "beautifully sleepy vocals."{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mazzy-star-mn0000401287 |title=Mazzy Star – Biography |website=AllMusic |last=Unterberg |first=Richie |access-date=March 21, 2025}} Mazzy Star's music is folk-inflected alternative rock and dream pop with a wash of psychedelic production, while the Warm Inventions omit the psychedelic sheen to form cleaner, tighter arrangements.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/at-the-doorway-again-mw0000967043 |title=At the Doorway Again – Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions |website=AllMusic |last=Orens |first=Geoff |access-date=March 21, 2025}}

During live performances, Sandoval prefers to sing in near-darkness with only a dim backlight, playing the tambourine, harmonica, glockenspiel or shaker.{{cite web |title=LiveDC: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions @ Sixth & I|url=http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/live-dc/livedc-hope-sandoval-the-warm-inventions-sixth-i/|publisher=Brightest Young Things|access-date=May 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819134552/http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/live-dc/livedc-hope-sandoval-the-warm-inventions-sixth-i|archive-date=August 19, 2010|url-status=dead}} She has a reputation for shyness.{{cite news |last=McLaughlin|first=Moira E.|date= October 9, 2009|title=Profile of Enigmatic Singer Hope Sandoval|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100603895.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=May 1, 2010}} Her stage presence has been described as "idly withdrawn, barely acknowledging the audience". Sandoval's tendency to avoid contact with the audience has led to her being categorized as shoegaze.

Personal life

Sandoval lives in Berkeley, California.

Discography

=Mazzy Star=

{{Main article|Mazzy Star discography}}

=Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions=

{{Main article|Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions}}

=Collaborations=

Sandoval has collaborated with numerous other artists.{{cite web |title=The Official Website of Hope Sandoval – Collaborations with other artists|url=http://www.hopesandoval.com/music/guest.shtml|publisher=HopeSandoval.com|access-date=October 14, 2021}}

References

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Category:1966 births

Category:American women singer-songwriters

Category:Singer-songwriters from California

Category:Dream pop musicians

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Category:Singers from Los Angeles

Category:Rough Trade Records artists

Category:20th-century American women singers

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Category:Hispanic and Latino American musicians

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