Kanude : Recording Artist

He is a songwriter, recording artist, and producer releasing music primarily under the monikers Kanude, LightBody Sound & Val Holler over the past 25 years. His music has been featured in HBO's "True Blood," ​as part of the original programming for the inaugural New York Fringe Festival (in which he composed and performed in a wild downtown rock opera, "One Arm Red: Gospel Truth Family Hour") and early on as the co-composer/music producer of Robert Rodriguez'​s critically acclaimed feature film debut "El Mariachi."​ 

He has fronted and managed recording & live projects while based in Los Angeles, California; Berlin, Germany, Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Richmond, Virginia; and currently Nashville, Tennessee.

His Lightstone Records catalog is distributed by The Orchard and Symphonic, pub admin via Sentric, and is repped for sync by SoStereo, Tunedge and others. Check out his recent single "Born Again in Tennessee (feat. The McCrary Sisters)" mixed by Shooter Jennings.