Hope Sandoval

About

Hope Sandoval (born June 24, 1966) is an American singer and songwriter. She was the lead singer of Mazzy Star and is the lead singer of Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions.
She has collaborated with other artists, including the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack.

Sandoval was born June 24, 1966, in Los Angeles to Mexican-American parents, and raised in East Los Angeles. Her father was a butcher, and her mother worked for a potato chip manufacturing company. She has one sibling and seven half-siblings. Her parents separated when she was a child, and she was raised primarily by her mother.
She attended Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, but struggled socially and academically, and was placed in special education classes. She began to forgo her classes, instead staying home and listening to records. “It’s just like anybody else — some people, most people don’t wanna go to school. They just don’t want to”, Sandoval recalled. “I was just somebody who got away with it… There wasn’t really anyone watching”. She eventually dropped out of high school.
Sandoval took an interest in music at an early age, and at age 13 was particularly influenced…