1. Deantoni Parks is a composer and performer on the Andre 3000 album New Blue Sun.
14 Facts About Deantoni Parks
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Deantoni Parks has participated as faculty for Stanford Jazz Workshop and Berklee College of Music, performing workshops and clinics at Cooper Union, Georgia Tech, and Virginia Tech.
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Deantoni Parks was put in the national spotlight before the age of five as a result of his practice and performance with the Newnan High School band.
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Deantoni Parks later explored jazz as a teen with Delbert Felix and chose to enroll at Berklee College of Music, where study with Lenny Nelson and exposure to Photek, Squarepusher, and Hidden Agenda turned his focus to the mechanistic beats of electronic music.
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In 1998, while living in Boston, Deantoni Parks drafted the New Wave Manifesto.
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Deantoni Parks founded KUDU with his then girlfriend Sylvia Gordon, Nicci Kasper.
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Nicci Kasper, Sylvia Gordon and Deantoni Parks have all continued to write and produce tracks for other artists including John Cale and Me'shell Ndegeocello.
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Deantoni Parks briefly joined The Mars Volta in September 2006, following the departure of Blake Fleming.
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Deantoni Parks joined the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group on their autumn 2010 tour across Japan, the US and Russia.
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Deantoni Parks has recorded on many of Omar's albums since 2008's release Old Money, for which his contribution had been recorded when Deantoni first joined The Mars Volta in 2006.
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Deantoni Parks rejoined The Mars Volta in late 2010 and stayed until their dissolution after 2012's Noctourniquet.
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Deantoni Parks is composer as We Are Dark Angels alongside Nicci Kasper on Dog Eat Dog.
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Deantoni Parks was featured as an actor and drummer in Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut, Sympathy for Delicious, along with Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney, Orlando Bloom and Mark Ruffalo.
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Deantoni Parks appeared on the soundtrack of the Tamra Davis documentary The Radiant Child, with Michael Holman and Jean-Michel Basquiat's band Gray.