Shawn Matthew Fogel (born December 12, 1981) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.
Life
Shawn Matthew Fogel was born on December 12, 1981, in New York City. He began learning how to play music as a young child, picking up the piano in third grade. He continued to learn various other instruments through middle and high school, after which he enrolled in
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges ...
in
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst () is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. Amherst has a council–manager form of government, and is considered a city under Massachusetts state law. Amherst is one of several Massach ...
, where he studied songwriting, performance, audio engineering & studio recording, and music business. During his senior year at Hampshire, Fogel used the campus facilities to record, edit, and mix his first full-length album, ''Millions of Miles Away'', all on his own. The album was released commercially in 2004. Fogel's next effort, ''One Day In The Desert - EP'', was recorded with the record label
The Sleepy West and released in late 2007. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Fogel sang all of the vocals and played all of the instruments on both albums; his talents cover a wide range of instruments, including the
guitar
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,
bass guitar
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,
keyboard
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* Mus ...
,
harmonica
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,
clarinet
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,
saxophone
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, and
drums
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.
Fogel also performs with
The LeeVees
The LeeVees are a rock band from New York City featuring Adam Gardner of Guster and Dave Schneider of the Zambonis. The band was formed when the two bands toured together. The latter band only writes songs about ice hockey. Gardner and Schneid ...
, a New York City rock band that plays contemporary
Hanukkah
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songs for whom Fogel plays bass guitar. Like the rest of the band members, Fogel maintains a strong Jewish identity, as he is also a songleader for the Garden Empire Region (GER) of the North American Federation of Temple Youths (
NFTY
NFTY: The North American Federation for Temple Youth (formerly known as the National Federation for Temple Youth, often referred to simply as NFTY, commonly pronounced ''"nifty"'') is the organized youth movement of Reform Judaism in North Amer ...
).
Fogel is also a member of the world's only all hockey rock band
The Zambonis. The Zambonis formed in 1991. Fogel joined in 2006.
Fogel claims his influences to be his mother's old Beatles LP's and Stevie Wonder, the latter of whom was specifically his inspiration to record his music in a one-man-band fashion.
Discography
Fogel has recorded four albums, the first two of which are out of print.
''Millions Of Miles Away''
# "Maybe Tonight" - 1:11
# "Millions Of Miles Away" - 4:38
# "Oh Yeah (How I Miss You)" - 3:09
# "I'd Be Lyin'" - 2:47
# "Walk It Off (Part I)" - 0:49
# "Walk It Off (Part II)" - 1:58
# "Everyone's Got Me Down" - 4:15
# "It's You, My Love" - 3:37
# "Days Go By" - 5:03
# "Maybe Tonight Reprise" - 2:51
''One Day In The Desert - EP''
# "The Season I Love Best" - 2:52
# "Leaves, Corners, Stones" - 3:19
# "What's Mine Is Mine" - 2:31
# "Dead Petals" - 3:30
# "Athens" - 6:01
External links
Shawn Fogel's MySpaceThe LeeVees' Official Website
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Jewish American musicians
1981 births
Living people
American rock musicians
Jews in punk rock
21st-century American Jews