12 Facts About Hope Sandoval

Hope Sandoval has toured and collaborated with other artists, including the Jesus and Mary Chain and Massive Attack, for whom she sang "Paradise Circus" on the 2010 album Heligoland and the 2016 single "The Spoils".

Hope Sandoval's father was a butcher and her mother worked for a potato chip manufacturing company.

Hope Sandoval's parents separated when she was a child and she was raised primarily by her mother.

Hope Sandoval attended Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, but struggled socially and academically, and was placed in special education classes.

Hope Sandoval began to forgo her classes, instead staying home and listening to records.

Hope Sandoval took an interest in music at an early age, and at age 13 was particularly influenced by the Rolling Stones.

Hope Sandoval contacted the duo and suggested that he would "play guitar for you guys".

Hope Sandoval performed with the band Opal in the late 1980s alongside David Roback and long-time Roback collaborator Kendra Smith.

Hope Sandoval formed the Warm Inventions in 2000 and released her first solo album Bavarian Fruit Bread in 2001, which she recorded with My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm O Ciosoig.

Hope Sandoval recorded a song, "Wild Roses", for a compilation CD released by Air France, In the Air.

Hope Sandoval contributed vocals to "I Don't Mind" by Psychic Ills, which was released on March 29,2016.

Hope Sandoval covered "Big Boss Man" on Mercury Rev's 2019 album Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited.