Gordon Gano

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Gordon Gano (born on June 7, 1963 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the lead singer and guitarist from the band Violent Femmes. He also writes almost all of the band's songs.

During a Violent Femmes hiatus in the late 1980s, Gano formed a side-project gospel group called The Mercy Seat with vocalist Zena Von Heppinstall, bassist Patrice Moran and drummer Fernando Menendez. The group released one album, self-titled, in 1987 on Slash Records.

Gano released his first solo album in 2002, titled Hitting the Ground.

He shared vocal duties (singing in Portuguese) with Manuel Cruz, the lead singer of the famous Portuguese rock band Ornatos Violeta in the song Capitão Romance for the last album released before their break-up, O Monstro precisa de Amigos in 1999.

In high school, he was very shy of his small hands, and on the first day of school, a girl came up to him, held up his hands, and shouted "Hey, look what small hands he has!" Which explains a line from their indie song "Blister In The Sun".