Andy Rinehart (born 1960) is an American balladeer, composer and multi instrumentalist. Rinehart was born in 1960 in Norwalk, Connecticut. Rinehart started his studies of the guitar at an early age, and at the age of 10 he was recruited by a substitute teacher at his elementary school to sing backing vocals for two pieces performed by Judy Collins on a television show. Afterwards, he learned the piano, and played in several rock bands during high school. He subsequently studied music and theatre at Bard College at Simon's Rock, a progressive college which introduced him to his first non-western music forms and instruments. His formal musical education continued when he enrolled in the classical conservatory of the State University of New York where he researched the relationship between rhythm, culture and perception. He graduated in 1992 with his thesis, Rhythm In Culture, given a special merit award. While at the university he formed his own group, Zulife, and backed regular CBGB’s headliners Being Don And Nothingness. He has analogised the purpose of his songs as similar to that of ‘minstrels in medieval Europe, or the griots of West Africa’. More information...
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