Melissa Hasin

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Melissa Hasin
Born	November 3, 1954 Hollywood, California, United States
Genres	Jazz Rock
Instruments	Cello Violin Strings
Labels	Cexton Records
Associated acts	see below

Melissa "Missy" Hasin, (born November 3, 1954 in Hollywood, California) is an American cellist who was raised in Newport Beach, California. Although her parents wanted her to stick with classical music, she played the electric bass in various blues and rock bands as a teenager but later concentrated mainly on the cello. She earned a BA in music from California State University Long Beach in 1978. Hasin considers Jaco Pastorius and John Patitucci as primary influences.^[1]

As a session musician, she has embraced everything from classical and rock/pop to heavy metal, soul, and rap. She has played on sessions by everyone from Barbra Streisand and Natalie Cole to No Doubt (which used Hasin on its major hit of 1996 "Don't Speak"), to gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg. Other artists include Tori Amos, John Tesh, Bradley Joseph, Melissa Manchester, Kosmos Express, David Benoit, Robert Deeble and Teddy Edwards. On stage, she has backed Sammy Davis, Jr., Smokey Robinson, Frank Sinatra in 1996, and Led Zeppelin graduates Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in 1997.

Discography

Cellistic Visions, Cexton Records
How My Heart Sings (1997), Cexton Records

References

↑ Henderson, Alex. "Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-10-23.

External links

Melissa Hasin at AllMusic
Melissa Hasin at the Internet Movie Database
Melissa Hasin discography at Discogs

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Name	Hasin, Melissa
Alternative names
Short description	American musician
Date of birth	November 3, 1954
Place of birth	Hollywood, California, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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