Mazzy Star
Biography
Mazzy Star are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Santa Monica, California, from remnants of the group Opal. Founding member David Robacks friend Hope Sandoval became the groups vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal.
Mazzy Star is best known for the song "Fade Into You", which brought the band some success in the mid-1990s and was the groups biggest mainstream hit, earning extensive exposure on MTV, VH1 and radio airplay. Roback and Sandoval were the creative center of the band, with Sandoval as lyricist and Roback as composer of the majority of the bands material until his passing in Los Angeles on February 24, 2020 due to metastatic cancer.
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The bands most recent studio album, Seasons of Your Day, was released in 2013, followed by the EP Still in 2018. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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