Andrew Sandoval

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Born in Santa Monica, California Andrew P. Sandoval is a songwriter, musician, producer and author. His career in music began in 1986 as the editor and publisher of a fanzine called "New Breed", a project that blossomed into work as a reissue producer for such labels as Rhino and PolyGram.

In December 1989, Andrew performed his first live show as a solo musician and began professionally recording his music soon after (though his first record release did not appear until 1995).

On September 11, 2006 Andrew added DJ to his list of credits when he launched a weekly radio show called "Come To The Sunshine" on www.luxuriamusic.com which is broadcast live from Los Angeles every Monday from 4 to 6pm PST.

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[edit] Recording artist

Under the moniker Andrew, Sandoval has issued four albums (From Me to You, Happy To Be Here, What's It All About and A Beautiful Story) and two e.p.'s (Happily Ever After and Million Dollar Movie). In 2006, Spanish label Hanky Panky issued a compilation on Andrew's recordings past and present titled 33: The Best Of Andrew.

Andrew Sandoval has also recorded and toured with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dave Davies (of the Kinks). His work with Davies is included on the collections Unfinished Business, Rock Bottom and Kinked

[edit] Reissue producer

As a reissue producer, Sandoval has worked on releases by such artists as The Beach Boys, Bee Gees, The Kinks, The Monkees, The Band, Elvis Costello, Left Banke, Love, Pretty Things, Elton John, The Troggs, Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders, P.F. Sloan, The Everly Brothers, Manfred Mann, Three Dog Night, The Zombies, Gene Clark, Tom Jones, The Grass Roots, Roger McGuinn, The Hollies, Blues Magoos, Beau Brummels, The Turtles and the Easybeats.

His compilations Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults and Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults were released by Rhino Handmade in 2004.

[edit] Author

Sandoval wrote the 2005 book The Monkees: the day by day story of the '60s TV pop sensation. Mojo magazine said of this work was "The only Monkees book you need…Essential reading and a poignant primer in how the template was set for today's shooting stars…as close as you'll get to the official word…an engaging document of one of the '60s most important phenomena.”

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