Mazzy Star
Alternative / Pop
Mazzy Star was an American 1990s dream pop/alternative band. They formed in 1989, from the band Opal, a collaboration of guitarist David Roback and bassist Kendra Smith. Smith's friend Hope Sandoval became vocalist when Smith left the band.
Mazzy Star is probably best known for the song "Fade Into You", which brought the band some success in the mid-1990s and was dream pop's biggest mainstream hit during that era. Roback and Sandoval were the creative center of the band, with Sandoval writing most of the lyrics and Roback composing most of the music.
Although the band never officially broke up (it is dormant), Sandoval would go on to found the band Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, and appear on recordings by Bert Jansch, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Chemical Brothers, Air and Death in Vegas.
Roback wrote songs that were performed by actress Maggie Cheung in the 2004 film Clean, about a former drug-addict who wants to become a singer.
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