Evan Griffith Dando (born March 4, 1967) is an American musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock band The Lemonheads. He is the only original member left in the current Lemonheads line-up, having served as lead singer since the band's original formation in 1986. He has been married to English fashion model Elizabeth Moses since 2000.
Evan Dando was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a fashion model and a real estate attorney...
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Evan Griffith Dando (born March 4, 1967) is an American musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock band The Lemonheads. He is the only original member left in the current Lemonheads line-up, having served as lead singer since the band's original formation in 1986. He has been married to English fashion model Elizabeth Moses since 2000.
Evan Dando was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a fashion model and a real estate attorney. During his youth, Dando had gravitated towards such influential '80s punk outfits as Hüsker Dü and The Replacements. For high school, he attended the Commonwealth School, in Boston. Dando enrolled at Skidmore College, but he could not maintain his grades and dropped out to pursue a career as a musician.
Along with school friend Ben Deily, he formed The Lemonheads at the Commonwealth School in Boston circa 1986. At this stage they played punk rock, and were briefly known as the Whelps, until a name change in 1987 led to the birth of the...
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